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call for plant identification help

May 23, 2006 11:01

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larksdream May 23 2006, 17:31:30 UTC

I think it's a cornflower, Centaurea, probably one of the annuals. Also called bachelor's buttons.

nixieq May 23 2006, 19:28:04 UTC

seems like a possibility, although the leaves in the various pics i looked at didn't seem quite right.

can you tell i'm bored? also, pretty pictures! nixieq May 23 2006, 19:31:46 UTC

here's a better pic. does this look right?

Re: can you tell i'm bored? also, pretty pictures! larksdream May 23 2006, 19:35:18 UTC

Yup, that's cornflower. That little scaly spherical base is very distinctive. (Thistles have that too, as well as blue flowers, but they also have pretty obvious spines. *g*)

Re: can you tell i'm bored? also, pretty pictures! railwaymadness May 24 2006, 18:12:06 UTC

That doesn't look right.
I have cornflowers (bachelor button) elsewhere and this is a completely different plant. I think you have to click through to the really large version of this photo to see it but this one has a cluster of bell-shaped flowers on top of the stalk rather than a single flower on the top of each stalk.

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