Corn Cockle (Agrostemma githago)

General Plant Information (Edit)
Life cycle:	Annual
Sun Requirements:	Full Sun Full Sun to Partial Shade
Water Preferences:	Mesic Dry Mesic Dry
Plant Height:	80-100 cm
Plant Spread:	25 cm
Flowers:	Showy
Flower Time:	Spring Late spring or early summer Summer
Uses:	Medicinal Herb Cut Flower
Propagation: Seeds:	Provide darkness Depth to plant seed: 0.3 - 0.55 cm Suitable for wintersowing Sow in situ Can handle transplanting
Pollinators:	Moths and Butterflies Bees

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Posted by gardengus (Indiana Zone 5b) on Aug 28, 2014 12:47 PM concerning plant:

A very easy annual to grow from seed. Does not self sow here in my garden, but seeds are easy to collect and sow in early spring. Makes a nice mass of pink dancing flowers on thin stems.
They have finished their life cycle by summer. They look good in a wildflower garden with other later-flowering plants, such as bachelor's buttons.

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Posted by Johannian (The Black Hills, SD - Zone 4b) on Jan 11, 2022 8:45 PM concerning plant:

Range: throughout, but most frequent in Washington, Oregon, and California's interior valleys. Additional info: in England, where "corn" generally means wheat, Corn Cockle was a weed in grain fields; before the advent of machine harvesting, the separation of its poisonous seeds from the wheat was a tedious procedure.

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Agrostemma Corn Cockle (Agrostemma githago)