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
Flowers: Showy
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
Pollinators: Self
Moths and Butterflies
Flies
Bees
Miscellaneous: Tolerates poor soil

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

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Location: Chuelles, France
Date: 2016-05-27

 Photo Courtesy of Baker Creek Heirloom Seeds. Used with permissi
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