BACHELOR'S BUTTON 'Blue Boy'

AKA "Cornflower", 2-3' tall plants with grassy foliage and stunning true-blue flowers! Petals are edible, flowers are great for arrangements, and they keep their color after drying so they're wonderful for dried arrangements, pressed flowers, wreaths, and more.  Drought-tolerant, self-seeding, pollinator attractant. The lore written into this flower's botanical name, "Centaurea cyanus" is incredible: According to Greek legend, Cyanus was a youth smitten with Chloris (Flora), the goddess of flowers. Such was his devotion that the lad spent every moment gathering blue flowers for her alter, neglecting his own health and alas, perished in a field of millet. In a show of love, she then turned him into the flower itself which just so happens to grow wonderfully among grains. (hence it’s persistence in romantic lore to this day.) As for Centaurea, this derives from the great Centaur Chiron who was gravely wounded by an arrow dipped in the toxic blood of the Hydra. He cured his festering wound by making a compress of bachelor button petals.