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Photographer: Emmet J. Judziewicz
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Family Asteraceae
Centaurea cyanus L.
bachelor's-button, bluebottle, cornflower
Centaurea: ancient Greek plant-name, poetically associated with Chiron, the Centaur, but without wholly satisfactory explanation
cyanus: dark-blue
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| Status: | Introduced - escaped |
| Plant: | erect, annual, 8"-48" tall forb covered with whitish hairs when young |
| Flower: | head 1/2"-1" wide with blue to purple disk flowers, bracts (phyllaries) lined with darkish fringed "eyelashes" near the tip; inflorescence a solitary head at the ends of the many branches |
| Leaf: | usually undivided, linear, less than 1/3" wide, larger ones possibly with a few lobes |
| Habitat: | disturbed sites |
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