The flowers are heavenly blue with a reddish center.

This Centaurea makes great cut flowers and attracts bees and butterflies to the garden.

The leaves are gray-green, broadly lanceolate and hairy.

Flowers first year when sown early.

Sensitive to mildew and to avoid this as much as possible, a poor humus-rich soil is preferable.

Regularly removing spent flowers prolongs flowering.

Height: 50 cm (28″).

Supplied as raw (normal) seed in grams.
Approximately 75 seeds per gram.