Cornflower Montana. Each head encased is by a ring of the brightest blue slender ray petals. Perennial cornflower Centaurea montana bears thistle-like flowers in shades of purple blue white or pink.
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West or South Facing. Diameter with reddish blue centers and black-edged involucre bracts. Another common name bachelors button bears reference to this flowers use as a gentlemans boutonnierre.
It typically has grey-green lance-shaped leaves and large deep blue or violet flowers borne in early summer.
This is a genus of annuals and perennials that are grown for their intriguing thistle-like flower heads. A cottage garden favorite the cornflower was so named because of its propensity as a weed in grain fields in its native Europe. Native to Europe the mountain cornflower is a clump-forming plant with gray-green lance-shaped leaves. This attractive perennial plant features showy blue fringed flowerheads 2 in.
