You may know the Centaurea plants as cornflowers, bachelor’s buttons or basket flowers and you may have even heard your Grandma or Great Grandma call them blue-bottles. Originating in Europe, they’ve been grown in American gardens since the Colonial times. Interestingly, this genus name comes from Greek mythology where one of the tamer, as opposed to war-like, centaurs first used this plant to heal his own wounds and then taught mankind about the healing powers of herbs.
Centaurea, pronounced cen-TAR-ee-ah, is an herbaceous plant with a thistle-like flower. Producing both single and double fringed blooms on plants that range in height from 10 to 30-inches, its leaves are spineless, unlike the thistle, and they are highly appreciated for their long-lasting beauty in fresh and dried cut flower arrangements. Centaurea are drought-tolerant and do best with infrequent watering. Deadheading will encourage more prolific blooming.
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