Irish wildflowers BSBI map

Cornflower, Centaurea cyanus, Gormán
Photographs: Aughinish, Co. Limerick

Cornflower
Centaurea cyanus
Gormán
Family: Asteraceae

Flowering May-October. Annual. Garden escape. Introduced.

The outer florets are usually bright blue, inner florets purple-blue but flowers can also be pinkish, mauve or pale blue. Narrow grey-green leaves, the lower leaves stalked and pinnately lobed. Stiff grooved stems with greyish hairs. To 60cm.

Previously a common arable weed but now found as a garden escape or discard on roadsides and waste ground. Often part of 'wildflower' mixtures

Cornflower, Centaurea cyanus, Gormán

Cornflower, Centaurea cyanus, Gormán
Cornflower, Centaurea cyanus, Gormán

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