Tina
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| Posted: Tue Jul 01, 2008 5:19 am Post subject: Blue flowers growing in a tall stalk.... |
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What flower is this? I found it growing in a vacant land by our house.
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toni
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| Posted: Tue Jul 01, 2008 5:33 am Post subject: |
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Bachelor's Button, Cornflower (Centaurea cyanus)
Looks a lot like your flower, it's an annual but reseeds quite prolifically.
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Tina
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| Posted: Tue Jul 01, 2008 5:40 am Post subject: |
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Thanks Toni.
Yep, this does look like Bachelors button. They are growing in the wild though - that too in a very dry land. Guess they are need less 
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