Description
Grow a garden filled with the lovely Tall White Cornflower, from freshly harvested Centaurea cyanus flower seeds. Tall White Cornflower is a beloved annual flower, which produces pure white blooms. The plants grow to a mature height of roughly 28 to 36 inches tall. Each flower head is roughly 1 to 1.25 inches in diameter, displaying tooth shaped florets. The blooms are known to attract native honeybees, bumblebees, butterflies, hummingbirds, and other beneficial insects to the garden as well.
Categorized as an annual flowering plant, the Tall White Cornflower will grow quickly, bloom profusely through the summer months and later die with the first frost. The seeds of these beautiful flowers can be collected at the end of the season, when the flower heads have dried out. Resow the following season, or allow seeds to drop to the bare ground beneath for fresh, new growth the following year.
Tall White Cornflower is established in many insectary's and butterfly gardens. The plants also mix will with other wildflowers and can be seen in naturalized settings, along railways, in open fields and in meadows. You can use Tall White Cornflower in a number of settings, such as flower beds, along fences, walkways & driveways, or even in pots & containers as well. Cornflower plants are among one of the easiest and most rewarding plants to grow from seed.
Check out our other Cornflower species in the Cornflower seed category.