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Mar 17, 2019 4:48 PM CST

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Conneaut, Ohio

How did Bachelor Buttons get the name of Cornflower?

| @Petronius | Post #1929839 (1)

Mar 17, 2019 10:15 PM CST

Name: ZenMan
Kansas (Zone 5b)
Kansas 5b

It often grew as a weed in corn fields.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

ZM

| @ZenMan | Post #1930005 (2)

Mar 17, 2019 10:58 PM CST

Name: Sue Taylor
Northumberland, UK

Lots of annuals like poppies, corncockles, toadflax and cornflowers were common sights in meadows when I was a child. Unfortunately 98% of these areas have declined or disappeared since then due to intensive farming and building.

| @kniphofia | Post #1930008 (3)

Mar 19, 2019 7:00 PM CST

Name: Don
Meadville, PA - Crawford Co. - (Zone 5a)
Love of gardening grows on you!

Thanks for the answer, ZM - was curious about that myself. Ordered some dwarf blues from Eden Brothers this spring and anxious to see them in bloom again. Haven't grown them for a few years, but I was just asking myself the other day, "Wonder why they call Bachelor Buttons cornflowers? Now I know.

The love of gardening is a seed once sown that never dies - Gertrude Jekyll

| @DonfromPA | Post #1931170 (4)

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