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Plant Habit: Herb/Forb
Life cycle: Perennial
Sun Requirements: Full Sun
Water Preferences: Mesic
Dry Mesic
Dry
Flowers: Showy
Flower Time: Late spring or early summer
Underground structures: Rhizome
Uses: Will Naturalize
Wildlife Attractant: Bees
Butterflies
Resistances: Drought tolerant
Propagation: Seeds: Self fertile
Propagation: Other methods: Division
Stolons and runners
Pollinators: Self
Moths and Butterflies
Flies
Bees
Miscellaneous: Tolerates poor soil

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Common names
  • Mountain Cornflower
  • Mountain Bluet
  • Perennial Cornflower
  • Mountain Bluet
Botanical names
  • Accepted: Centaurea montana
  • Synonym: Cyanus montanus

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Location: Bide A Wee cottage garden, Northumberland UK
Date: 2011-05-14
Location: Bide A Wee cottage garden, Northumberland UK
Date: 2011-05-14
Location: Bide A Wee cottage garden, Northumberland UK
Date: 2010-05-29
Location: Bide a Wee Cottage Garden, Northumberland, England UK 
Date: 2019-08-07
Centaurea montana 'Alba'
Location: Bide a Wee Cottage Garden, Northumberland, England UK 
Date: 2019-08-07
Centaurea montana 'Alba'

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