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Spermatophytes (seed plants): Angiosperms (flowering plants): Eudicots: Core Eudicots: Asterids: Campanulids: Asterales

WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/14/23):
Cyanus segetum   FAMILY Asteraceae__   Go to FSUS key



SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Centaurea cyanus   FAMILY Asteraceae__

SYNONYMOUS WITH Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2021)

Cyanus segetum

SYNONYMOUS WITH Flora of North America north of Mexico, vol. 19-20-21 (2006)

Centaurea cyanus

SYNONYMOUS WITH Floristic Synthesis of North America (Kartesz, 1999)

Centaurea cyanus

SYNONYMOUS WITH VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 179-24-002:

Centaurea cyanus   FAMILY Asteraceae__

SYNONYMOUS WITH Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)

Centaurea cyanus

 

COMMON NAME:
Bachelor's Buttons, Cornflower


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image of Cyanus segetum, Bachelor's Buttons, Cornflower

USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / Britton, N.L., and A. Brown. 1913    pnd_cecy2_001_lvd

        

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JK Marlow    jkm150327_926

March    Greenville County    SC

Leaves linear, mostly entire, 2-5" long, white-hairy when young, per Wildflowers of Tennessee, the Ohio Valley, and the Southern Appalachians (Horn, Cathcart, Hemmerly, & Duhl, 2005).

image of Cyanus segetum, Bachelor's Buttons, Cornflower

JK Marlow    jkm150327_926b

March    Greenville County    SC

image of Cyanus segetum, Bachelor's Buttons, Cornflower

JK Marlow    jkm150327_932

March    Greenville County    SC

image of Cyanus segetum, Bachelor's Buttons, Cornflower

Craig Myers    cam_blueflowerkinards

April    Laurens County    SC

Field

image of Cyanus segetum, Bachelor's Buttons, Cornflower

Gill Newberry    gn04_c_c_side_view

April        

The involucral bracts have a narrow, dark, fringed margin, per Wildflowers of the Southern Mountains (Smith, 1998).


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image of Cyanus segetum, Bachelor's Buttons, Cornflower

Gill Newberry    gn04_c_cyanus_habitat

April        

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Gill Newberry    gn04_c_flower_white

April        

Outer florets have large bilaterally symmetric corollas simulating ray flwrs, per Wildflowers of the Southern Mountains (Smith, 1998).

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Gill Newberry    gn04_c_side_vies

April        

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Gill Newberry    gn04_centauea_cropped

April        

Flowers discoid, perfect, or the outer simulating ligules and sterile, per Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968).

image of Cyanus segetum, Bachelor's Buttons, Cornflower

JK Marlow    jkm0405za_01

May    Greenville County    SC

Field

Marginal florets enlarged, bell-shaped, with sharply pointed segments, per Wildflowers of Tennessee, the Ohio Valley, and the Southern Appalachians (Horn, Cathcart, Hemmerly, & Duhl, 2005).

image of Cyanus segetum, Bachelor's Buttons, Cornflower

Keith Bradley    kab_centaurea_cyanus_0918

May    Polk County    NC

image of Cyanus segetum, Bachelor's Buttons, Cornflower

Joseph M. DiTomaso, University of California - Davis, Bugwood.org    bug_5374345

Month Unknown        

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Rebekah D. Wallace, University of Georgia, Bugwood.org     bug_5395004

Month Unknown        

 

 

WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/14/23):
Cyanus segetum   FAMILY Asteraceae__

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Centaurea cyanus   FAMILY Asteraceae__

SYNONYMOUS WITH Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2021)
Cyanus segetum

SYNONYMOUS WITH Flora of North America north of Mexico, vol. 19-20-21
Centaurea cyanus

SYNONYMOUS WITH Floristic Synthesis of North America (Kartesz, 1999)
Centaurea cyanus

SYNONYMOUS WITH VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 179-24-002:
Centaurea cyanus   FAMILY Asteraceae__

SYNONYMOUS WITH Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Centaurea cyanus

 

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298

Forb
Winter annual

Habitat: Roadsides, disturbed areas, per Weakley's Flora

Non-native: Mediterranean Europe

Common (uncommon in GA Mountains)

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Invasive?

This plant may be causing problems in natural areas outside its native range, according to authorities such as:

 

LEAVES:
Simple: Unlobed and/or dissected
Basal & alternate

FLOWER:
Spring/Summer/Fall
Disc: Blue (sometimes pink, purple or white)
Rays: Absent
Inferior ovary
Bisexual, fertile (peripheral florets sterile)

FRUIT:
Spring/Summer/Fall
Bluish-gray
Achene

 

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