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Centaurea cyanus |
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Bachelor's Button, Cornflower, Bluebottle |
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Southern Europe |
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Erect plant |
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12-36 inches tall |
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Heads to 1˝ inches across on slender peduncles, flowers
classically blue, but are sometimes purple,
white, rose, red,
or deep wine. |
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May-July |
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Alternate, lower leaves lyrate-pinnatifid or
narrowly oblanceolate, entire or with few remote teeth,
petioled upper leaves, linear or Ianceolate, entire,
sessile, all with grayish pubescence that provides the
flowers an excellent setting. |
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'Blue Boy' - 36 inches, blue flowers, excellent as cut flowers,
2 inches
diameter flower heads.
- 'Blue Diadem' - 24 inches, double blue flowers.
- Imperial' Series (Sweet Sultan) - Old
fashioned type with large, fluffy
thistle-like flowers in colors of
lavender, pink, purple, red, rose, white and mixed,
18-24 inches tall.
- 'Pinkie' - Pink flowers, tall.
- 'Polka Dot Mixed' - 16 inches, mixed colors.
- 'Snowman' - White flowers, tall.
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Cyanus is from the Greek for blue, which is the
most common color in this species. |
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