Cornflower
Centaurea cyanus
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At a glance
- Scientific name
- Centaurea cyanus
- Group
- Eudicots
- Order
- Asterales
- Family
- Asteraceae
- Continent
- Europe
- Habitat
- Fields
- Form
- Herb
- Leaves
- Shed in winter
- Flower colour
- Blue
- Blooms in
- Summer
- Use
- Ornamental
- Difficulty in WildGuessr
- Easy
Did you know?
- It is the national flower of Estonia.
- Once a common weed of grain fields, it has become rare in many countries thanks to herbicides and cleaner seed grain.
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Classification, names and conservation status come from Wikidata (CC0), the photo from Wikimedia Commons. Wikidata Q156921 · All plants · All entries