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Centraurea Blue

Bachelor's Button-Perennia/Mountain Bluet

An awesome perennial features its lone,periphery, rich blue cornflowers with reddish purple centers and black borders involucre bracts. The astounding blue flowers emerge in late summer with unbranched stems normally reach 1-2' tall. The dark-green leaves are slender and lance-shaped. This clump-forming cultivar needs partial sun to full sun in moist, well-drained soil.

Plant type
Perennial
Height
12-24'
Width
8-12 '
Hardiness zones
2–5
Growth rate
Fast
Bloom time
Early Fall, Early Summer, Late Summer
Flower color
Blue
Leaf color
Green
Fall color
Green
Fruit
No
Fragrant
No
Deer resistant
No
Salt tolerant
No
Drought tolerant
No