Why Are Cornflowers Called Cornflowers. The French wear Cornflowers much like we wear poppies. It is known as the Bleuet de France.
Spreading by underground stolons perennial cornflower rapidly forms colonies. Department of Agriculture plant hardiness zones 3 through 8 perennial cornflower is also called mountain bluet. Of Karlsruhe Germany isolated a blue pigment from the cornflower which.
Furthermore and most importantly they attract a wide array of garden wildlife.
Where do cornflowers grow. How to grow cornflowers. Perennial cornflower Centaurea montana is a showy 2-foot wide and tall plant that blooms from May to June. The name Centaurea is based on a Greek myth in which the centaur Chiron wounded by a poison arrow from the nine-headed hydra healed himself using cornflowers on the wound.