CORNFLOWER

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This simple but amazingly beautiful blue flower adds a dash of colour and embellishment to any field or garden. Cornflower’s scientific name is Centaurea cyanus. This annual flower belongs to the Asteraceae family. It originated in Europe, but now is quite widespread. The flower got its name due to the fact that it often grew in the cornfields. Previously it was considered to be just a weed but nowadays this flower is grown in many gardens both as an ornamental and medicinal plant. Cornflowers are very popular in the United States, Canada and Australia though they aren’t native to these countries and were exported there. Unfortunately, cornflowers begin to disappear in Europe due to the active use of new agricultural technologies. The plant is usually 40-90 cm long and has a grey-green stem. The leaves are lancelike and their length is about 1-4 cm. The flowerheads are 1.5-3 cm diameter, ray florets enclose the central cluster of florets. The blossom time lasts throughout all the summer. In fact, the flowers can not only be intense blue but also white, red, pink, purple. All the colors except blue were created artificially.

Parts used: leaves, seeds, flowers

Useful Components

• Vitamin B7
• Vitamin C
• Tannin
• Calcium
• Potassium
• Flavonoids, protocyanin
• Cuprene
• Coumarin
• Cnicin
• Folate

Methods of Use

The plant can be used both internally and externally. The flowers are widely used in cosmetics, cooking, in the form of tea, poultices, infusions, decoctions, tinctures, extracts.

Interesting Cornflower Facts

• Cornflower in considered to be a national flower of Estonia.
• The other name of this plant is bachelor’s button because young men used to wear cornflowers to indicate that they are in love or are ready to start courting.
• The flowers are eatable, their taste resembles cucumber.
• Cornflower remains bright blue even after drying.
• Cornflower’s dried petals are included into many tea blends, the most famous of them is the Twinings “Lady Grey”.

We’d like to advise you a good and popular recipe of an eye lotion.

What you need:

• 1 tbsp of fresh cornflower petals
• A cup of water

Bring the water to a boil, add the petals to the boiling water and simmer for around 5 minutes. Cool the mixture. You can use it as an eye compress or eye wash.