Cornflower (Bachelor's Button)

Centaurea cyanus

Hope, love, devotion, single blessedness.

Did you know

The cornflower gets its name from once being a common weed in European cornfields (grain fields), where it grew alongside wheat and rye.
Cornflower is the national flower of Estonia and Germany, and a symbol of remembrance in France for veterans (Bleuet de France).
It's so endangered as a wild plant in the UK that fewer than 50 sites remain due to modern farming herbicides.
Bachelor's buttons earned their name from young men who wore them as a sign of being unmarried — and in love.
The pigment from cornflower petals was used historically as a blue dye and watercolor.