Cornflower
ಕಾರನ್ ಫ್ಲವರ್സെന്റൗറിയ സയനസ്
Centaurea cyanus L.
- light
- Sun–part
- water
- Medium
- tall
- 61 cm
- wide
- 46 cm
Asteraceae
Formerly Centaurea cyanocephala, Centaurea hoffmanniana, Centaurea hortorum, Centaurea lanata, and 11 more
When it flowers
Not known yet in the tropics: too few flowering observations to read a season from.
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Something wrong with it?About it
- Grows as
- AnnualKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Climate
- TemperateKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Wild in
- C. & E. Medit.Kew's checklist, not yet checked
- Light
- Full sun to part shade (3 h or more)Read from NC State Extension, one source
- Height
- 30 cm to 91 cmRead from NC State Extension, one source
- Spread
- 30 cm to 61 cmRead from NC State Extension, one source
- Water
- Average: moist, well drainedRead from NC State Extension, one source
- Flowers
- White, pink, blueRead from NC State Extension, one source
Not known yet: coldest it survives, heat, hottest it survives.
In other languages (12)
- German
- Kornblume, Korn-Flockenblume
- Italian
- Fiordaliso
- Swedish
- Blåklint
- Catalan
- Blavet
- Hungarian
- Búzavirág
- Persian
- گل گندم
- Chinese
- 矢车菊, 蓝花矢车菊, 矢車菊
- Arabic
- قنطريون عنبري
- Asturian
- clavelina
- Azerbaijani
- Əkin güləvəri
- Bashkir
- Зәңгәр сәскә
- Belarusian
- Васілёк сіні
Where this comes from
- Wikidata, read 2026-10-26, CC0-1.0
- Kew's checklist, read 2026-10-24, CC-BY-4.0
- NC State Extension, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- Wikimedia Commons, read 2026-10-25, CC BY-SA 3.0
- 3D model: Centaurea cyanus (built for Vanagrha) by Vanagrha, own
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