Common name: Cornflower
Scientific name: Centaurea cyanus 矢車菊
Genus: Centaurea 矢車菊屬
Family: Asteraceae or Compositae 菊科, aster , daisy, composite or sunflower family
Origin: Archaeophyte (established before 1500 AD). It has a distribution centred on the European Temperate region and it is known to have been present in Britain from the Iron Age onwards.
Date: 1st Aug
An erect plant, can reach up to 90 cm.
upper leaves linear, simple, sessile; lower leaves stalked, pinnately branched; all leaves greyish, pubescent
flowering head solitary
teeth of upper bracts silvery
outer florets bright blue
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