Silver Lake Regional Park, Haymarket, VA
Silver Lake Regional Park, Haymarket, VA
Silver Lake Regional Park, Haymarket, VA
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Family: Asteraceae (Aster / Sunflower family)
Mid-Atlantic bloom time: April - June
Cornflower, a popular garden plant also known as Bachelor's-buttons, is an annual that is native to temperate Europe, but has been introduced as an ornamental plant in many other parts of the world and subsequently naturalized. It gets its common name «cornflower» because it often grew as a weed in fields of grain (called «corn» in Europe).
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14 July 2022
Silver Lake Regional Park, Haymarket, VA
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14 July 2022
Silver Lake Regional Park, Haymarket, VA
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15 July 2022
Silver Lake Regional Park, Haymarket, VA
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References
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The genus Centaurea has been proposed to be split into several genera, including Cyanus.
Cornflower is one of the species that has been proposed to move into Cyanus with the new name Cyanus segetum.
Details can be found in
Greuter, Werner, et al. “(1509) Proposal to Conserve the Name Centaurea (Compositae) with a Conserved Type.” Taxon, vol. 50, no. 4, 2001, pp. 1201–05.
(access at onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.2307/1224746)