Can species adapt to drought using multiple strategies? Lessons from the California poppy

Summary Plants can escape drought by completing life cycles early, tolerate drought by increasing physiological limits, or avoid drought stress by obtaining or using water more efficiently. It remains unclear whether strategies vary within species across their distributional ranges due to trade‐offs, and whether species can exhibit plasticity in multiple traits simultaneously. We grew 19 populations of Eschscholzia californica collected along an aridity gradient in a glasshouse with high or low