What is Cornflower?

Cornflowers are annual plants that are known in an intensely rich blue color of their flowers. These plants come from Eurasia, but are widely grown in the northern hemisphere and several special cultivars have been produced, with flowers in colors like white, pink and purple except the famous blue. Cornflower Blue is so pronounced that it appears as a color in a set of crayons and colors, and people's eyes are sometimes compared to corn flowers. Cork buttons produce lance similar leaves and heads heads in the shape of disks, which in addition to looking attractive in the garden very well as dried flowers. Depending on where corn is grown, they generally bloom at the end of spring and early summer, after which the plant produces the seed and then dies back, allowing the gardeners to remove it.

Cornflower is extremely persistent, prosperous in the USDA zones three to 10. In North America, corn flowers are valued as garden flowers, but thanks to their adaptability they also grow wild. In Eurasia, the cornR -flowers are more likely to be weed in many regions, as they can cause confusion on crops and, in some areas of its native range, the flower has been ironically classified as an endangered species that may disappear because of a strong effort to eradicate.

for corn is a number of alternative names, including the bachelor button, Bluebonnet, Bluebottle and Ragged Sailor. The "bachelor's button" comes from the tradition of wearing corn buttonhole and the court at the same time, because the flowers last long like cut flowers; According to the legend, if Cornflowers disappeared or faded in the knob hole of a young man, it indicated that his affection was not true.

Cornflowerby was also used in traditional herbal medicine, immersed to rinse for sore or tired eyes. Cork -flowers are also edible; Traditionally they are added to some tea mixtures such as Lady Gray, and are also used to decorate herDLA or to add notes to jugs with water.

When planting corn flowers into the garden, they help to group them to form a thick blue mass during flowering. Some maize varieties are also quite high, so they are suitable for use as filling in large beds where a rich background color could be required.