Synonyms:
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Common names:
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Bachelor's button (English)
Cornflower (English)
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Frequency:
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Status:
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Introduced and very rarely naturalised |
Description:
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Annual herb with an erect wiry cottony stem to 90 cm tall, with many ascending branches. Lower leaves petiolate, lyrate-pinnatifid; upper leaves smaller, sessile, linear-lanceolate; all leaves greyish with cottony hairs. Heads 1.5-3 cm in diameter, solitary on main stem and branches. Involucre ovoid; phyllaries with appendages which are cut into spreading narrowly triangular teeth; those of the outer bracts silvery-white, those of the middle bracts brown. Marginal flowers large, bright blue; inner red-purple. Achenes silvery-grey, pubescent. |
Type location:
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Notes:
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Derivation of specific name:
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cyanus: blue, referring to the flowers |
Habitat:
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In crack in concrete road. |
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Worldwide distribution:
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Native to Europe and the Middle East; cultivated and escaping in other countries. |
National distribution:
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E |
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Endemic status:
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Insects associated with this species:
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Spot characters:
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Display spot characters for this species |
Literature:
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Clapham, A.R., Tutin, T.G. & Moore, D.M. (1989). Flora of the British Isles. 3rd edition. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge Page 487.
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