General Plant Information (Edit)
Plant Habit: Herb/Forb
Life cycle: Perennial
Sun Requirements: Full Sun
Full Sun to Partial Shade
Minimum cold hardiness: Zone 2 -45.6 °C (-50 °F) to -42.8 °C (-45°F)
Maximum recommended zone: Zone 10b
Plant Height: 60-120 cm
Plant Spread: 50-80 cm
Leaves: Deciduous
Flowers: Showy
Flower Color: Blue
Purple
Bloom Size: Under 1"
Flower Time: Late spring or early summer
Summer
Late summer or early fall
Fall
Uses: Cut Flower
Will Naturalize
Suitable as Annual
Wildlife Attractant: Bees
Butterflies
Propagation: Seeds: Depth to plant seed: cover the seeds very thin
Suitable for wintersowing
Sow in situ
Start indoors
Can handle transplanting
Propagation: Other methods: Division
Offsets

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Common names
  • Field Scabiosa
  • Bluebuttons
Botanical names
  • Accepted: Knautia arvensis subsp. arvensis
  • Synonym: Scabiosa arvensis

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Location: Nature Reserve Gent, Belgium
Date: 2009-06-22
growing in the wild
Location: Nature Reserve Gent, Belgium
Date: 2009-06-22
growing in the wild
Location: Vermont
Date: 2013-06-18
Location: Vermont
Date: 2013-06-18
Location: Nature Reserve Gent, Belgium
Date: 2009-06-22
growing in the wild
Location: Vermont
Date: 2012-06-23
Location: Vermont
Date: 2012-05-19
Location: Keila, Estonia.
Date: June
credit: Ivar Leidus
Location: My grden in Belgium
Date: 2011-07-31
Location: My garden in Belgium
Date: 2011-07-08

Photo by Leo Michels
Location: Vermont
Date: 2013-06-18

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