Photographs: Aughinish, Co.Limerick

Cornflower Centaurea cyanus Gormán Family: Asteraceae Flowering May-October. Annual. Garden escape. Introduced. Outer florets usually bright blue, inner florets purple-blue. Flowerheads can also be pinkish, mauve, pale blue. Narrow grey-green leaves, lower stalked, pinnately lobed. Stiff grooved stems with greyish hairs. To 60cm. Previously a common arable weed. Now garden escape or sown as part of wildflower mixtures. Waste ground, roadsides.

     



Cornflowers. Aughinish, County Limerick. July 2008