Mountain cornflower ( lat.Centaurea montana ) - a plant from the Aster family, or Compositae .
The birthplace of the plant is the mountains of Western Europe .
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Content
- 1 Description
- 2 Application
- 3 Gallery
- 4 notes
- 5 Links
Description
Cornflower mountain. The botanical illustration of Jacob Sturm from the book Deutschlands Flora in Abbildungen nach der Natur mit Beschreibungen (1796-1862).
Centaurea montana
Mountain cornflower - a perennial herb with a straight stem, unbranched, reaches a height of 60 cm.
Leaves - basal - whole, lanceolate, collected in a rosette, stem - also whole.
Flower baskets - single inflorescences, large, reach a diameter of 6 cm.
The flowers are blue, blue-violet.
The fruit is an achene.
It blooms in June and August.
Application
Grown as an ornamental plant since the XVI century .
Gallery
Notes
- ↑ For the conventionality of specifying the class of dicotyledons as a superior taxon for the plant group described in this article, see the APG Systems section of the Dicotyledonous article .