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Copyright: Dorothea Mansfeld (doropix02)
![Silver Star Critiquer/Silver Note Writer [C: 18 W: 3 N: 24]](http://i1.treklens.com/misc/s-n-s.gif) (184) |
| Genre: Places |
| Medium: Color |
| Date Taken: 2008-06-28 |
| Categories: Nature |
| Exposure: f/4.5, 1/500 seconds |
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| Photo Version: Original Version |
| Date Submitted: 2008-09-29 10:41 |
| Viewed: 78 |
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| [Note Guidelines] Photographer's Note |
Centaurea cyanus (Cornflower, Bachelor's button, Basket flower, Bluebottle, Boutonniere flower, Hurtsickle) is a small annual flowering plant in the family Asteraceae, native to Europe. (Cornflower is also a common, though incorrect name for chicory)
It is an annual plant growing to 40-90 cm tall, with grey-green branched stems. The leaves are lanceolate, 1-4 cm long. The flowers are most commonly an intense blue colour, produced in flowerheads (capitula) 1.5-3 cm diameter, with a ring of a few large, spreading ray florets surrounding a central cluster of disc florets. The blue pigment is protocyanin, which in roses is red.
In the past it often grew as a weed in crop fields. It is now endangered in its native habitat by agricultural intensification, particularly over-use of herbicides, destroying its habitat; in the United Kingdom it has declined from 264 sites to just 3 sites in the last 50 years. It is also however, through introduction as an ornamental plant in gardens and a seed contaminant in crop seeds, now naturalised in many other parts of the world, including North America and parts of Australia.
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