Botanical Name: Centaurea cyanis
Common Name: Cornflower, Bachelor's buttons
Type of Plant: dicot: annual
Character evergreen (annual)
 
Habit of Growth:
Overall Shape upright, narrow plants topped by blue, white or pink flowers
Height 1-3'
Spread 6-8"
Growth Rate rapid
 
Environment:
Exposure outdoors full sun
Soil needs good drainage
Hardiness tender – spring/summer use only
 
Morphology:
Leaves linear-lanceolate when mature, lower leaves pinnatific or narrowly oblanceolate grayish with cottony hairs above and beneath
Flowers heads to 1 and 1/2" across – pink, white or mostly blue-gray flowers sterile
Fruit small achenes
 
Propagation:
seed
 
Usage:
widely used for cut flowers, arrangements or dried flowers. Good in mixed beds as a mid-height filler plant, good source of easy color
 
Landscape Care:
Watering average water
Fertilizing low N fertilizer monthly – slow release when planting
Pruning remove spent flowers occasionally
Pests/Diseases none
 
Origin: Eastern Europe
Family: Compositae

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