General Plant Information (Edit)
Plant Habit: Herb/Forb
Life cycle: Annual
Sun Requirements: Full Sun
Full Sun to Partial Shade
Water Preferences: Mesic
Dry Mesic
Dry
Plant Height: 1-3 feet
Plant Spread: 1-2 feet
Leaves: Unusual foliage color
Other: Lyrate-pinnatifid lower leaves and narrow lanceolate upper leaves.
Flowers: Showy
Flower Color: Blue
Other: Purple-blue flowers (sometimes pink to white)
Flower Time: Late spring or early summer
Summer
Uses: Cut Flower
Dried Flower
Will Naturalize
Edible Parts: Flowers
Eating Methods: Raw
Cooked
Wildlife Attractant: Bees
Birds
Butterflies
Resistances: Drought tolerant
Propagation: Seeds: Self fertile
Provide darkness
Pollinators: Self
Moths and Butterflies
Flies
Bees
Miscellaneous: Tolerates poor soil
Awards and Recognitions: Other: National Flower of Estonia; Provincial Flower of ร–stergรถtland, Sweden

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Common names
  • Bachelor's Buttons
  • Cornflower
Botanical names
  • Accepted: Centaurea cyanus
  • Synonym: Cyanus segetum

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Location: My Gardens
#pollination Yellow Swallow Tail
Location: Belgium
Date: 22nd June 2006
Location: Northeastern, Texas
Date: 2021-05-01
Location: Killeen,Tx
Date: 2021-06-05
Location: Hamilton Square Perennial Garden, Historic City Cemetery, Sacramento CA.
Date: 2014-03-10
Involucre (involucral bracts) – a collection of bracts surround
Location: My Gardens
Date: August 11, 2019
An Old Summer Favorite
Photo by pretty_paws_29
Location: Tampa Bay, Florida 
Date: 2021-04-13
Location: Killeen,Tx
Date: 2021-05-29
Location: Killeen,Tx
Date: 2021-06-02
Location: Gent, Belgium
Date: 2015-08-10
Location: Oxfordshire, England
Date: 2016-05-14
Location: Garland, TX
Date: 2023-04-08
Cornflower with guest. ๐Ÿ’š๐Ÿ๐Ÿ’œ
Location: Tarlton, OH
Date: 2017-08-06
Photo by Robert147red
Location: Indiana zone 5
Date: 2014-06-25
annual bachlors button
Location: IL
Date: 2008-06-27
Location: Billerica Ma
Date: 2023-05-02
Close up of flower

Date: 2011-06-25
Courtesy Outsidepride
  • Uploaded by vic
Location: Fairfax, VA | June, 2022
Date: 2022-07-01
Location: Brownstown PA 17508
Date: 2020-06-14
These keep re-seeding
Location: India
Credit: Jackerhack
Location: SE Michigan
Date: 2017-08-11
Location: Fairfax, VA | June, 2022
Date: 2022-07-01
Location: Fairfax, VA | June, 2022
Date: 2022-07-01
Location: Aberdeen, NC (my garden 2022)
Date: July 6, 2022
Bachelor's button #256 and #5 fg; RAB page 1039, 179-24-1; AG p.
Location: Nature Reserve Gent, Belgium
Date: 5th September 2007
Location: Gouda, the Netherlands
Date: 2004-06-08
Credit: TeunSpaans

Date: 2020-06-16
Location: Aberdeen, NC (my garden 2022)
Date: June 27, 2022
Bachelor's button #256 and #5 fg; RAB page 1039, 179-24-1; AG p.
Location: Gent, Belgium
Date: 2015-08-10
Location: Killeen,Tx
Date: 2021-06-11
Location: Gorsselse heide
Date: 2021-08-12

Photo credit: Ivar Leidus
Location: belgium
Date: June 2006

Courtesy of Diane's Flower Seeds
Location: Ann Arbor, Michigan
Date: 2020-07-06
Bachelor Buttons direct sown
Location: My studio in Welland, Niagara Region, Ontario, Canada
Date: 2015-09-09
Seeds, pod and bloom
Photo by Drodriguez58

Courtesy Annie's Heirloom Seeds
  • Uploaded by vic
Location: Gulf-coast Texas
Date: 2015-04-19
Location: My garden in Gent, Belgium
Date: 2012-05-26
Location: Stutensee, Germany
photo credit: H. Zell

photo credit: H. Zell

 Photo Courtesy of Select Seeds. Used with permission.
  • Uploaded by Joy
Location: Fairfax, VA | June, 2022
Date: 2022-07-01
Location: Fairfax, VA | June, 2022
Date: 2022-07-01
Location: Fairfax, VA | June, 2022
Date: 2022-07-01
Location: Fairfax, VA | June, 2022
Date: 2022-07-01
Location: Garland (Dallas), TX
Location: Lenore, ID
Location: zone 8 Lake City, Fl.
Date: 2014-06-11
Naturalizing as wildflowers
Location: Powell Butte, OR
Date: 2020-06-16
Location: Plano, TX
Date: 2014-05-26
Location: Mason, New Hampshire
Date: 2016-06-23
Location: my garden, Gent, Belgium
Date: 2012-01-11
Pretty seeds!
Location: My garden back
Date: 2018-04-18
Location: Columbus, OH
Date: 8-19-2003
Location: zone 8 Lake City, Fl.
Date: 2014-06-11
Naturalizing as wildflowers

Courtesy Sustainable Seed Company
  • Uploaded by vic
Location: Powell Butte, OR
Date: 2020-06-16
Location: Mason, New Hampshire (zone 5b)
Location: Gent, Belgium
Date: 2015-08-10
Location: Gent, Belgium
Date: 2015-08-10
Location: my garden, Poland
Date: 2016-08-14

photo by ghislain118
Location: Columbus, OH
Date: 8-19-2003
Location: zone 8 Lake City, Fl.
Date: 2014-06-11
Location: my garden front 
Date: 2017-06-22
Location: zone 8 Lake City, Fl.
Date: 2014-06-11
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Comments:
  • Posted by Sharon (Calvert City, KY - Zone 7a) on Dec 3, 2011 10:42 PM concerning plant:
    The cornflower, Bachelor's Button, is a native of Europe and widely cultivated in North America, so much so that it has escaped from gardens and naturalized. It is an annual herb, with an erect wiry stem that branches and can grow to about 2 feet tall. At the ends of the branches grow single brilliant blue flowerheads. It has long grayish green leaves that are lance shaped and downy like the stem.

    At one time it was considered a medicinal plant, and it does have the qualities of an astringent.
  • Posted by Mindy03 (Delta KY) on May 3, 2012 6:48 PM concerning plant:
    Valuable source of nectar and pollen for honey bees.
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