bachelor's button
noun
: a European composite (Centaurea cyanus) having flower heads with usually blue, pink, or white rays that is often cultivated in North America
called also cornflower
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This is the case for all plants in the sunflower family, including daisies, yarrow, goldenrod, asters, coreopsis, and bachelor's buttons.
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Deb Wiley, Better Homes & Gardens, 19 Feb. 2024
Beware, perennial bachelor's button also goes by names like mountain bluet, corn flower, and basket flower, but all are bad news.
—Megan Hughes, Better Homes & Gardens, 30 Sep. 2022
Flowers which air dry well include goldenrod, hydrangea, statice, strawflower, celosia, rosebuds, yarrow, globe amaranth, grass plumes, rudbeckia, bachelor's buttons, zinnias and sunflower, to name a few.
—Dan Gill, NOLA.com, 4 Nov. 2017
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Deb Wiley, Better Homes & Gardens, 19 Feb. 2024
Beware, perennial bachelor's button also goes by names like mountain bluet, corn flower, and basket flower, but all are bad news.
—Megan Hughes, Better Homes & Gardens, 30 Sep. 2022
Flowers which air dry well include goldenrod, hydrangea, statice, strawflower, celosia, rosebuds, yarrow, globe amaranth, grass plumes, rudbeckia, bachelor's buttons, zinnias and sunflower, to name a few.
—Dan Gill, NOLA.com, 4 Nov. 2017
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