centaurea

Blue cornflower, centaurea cyanus, volunteers with a stipa tenuissima at the right.

Blue In The Garden-Part One « Fairegarden 2007

Sanguis upupoe cum melle compositus et centaurea, &c. Albertus.

Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

“They are centaurea,” Luke explained, “a form of cornflower.”

Moments in Time Mariah Stewart 1995

Here one walks beside deep, grassy trenches, which appear to continue without end, along the forest level; farther, the wild mint and the centaurea perfume the shady nooks, the oaks and lime-trees arch their spreading branches, and the honeysuckle twines itself round the knotty shoots of the hornbeam, whence the thrush gives forth her joyous, sonorous notes.

The French Immortals Series — Complete Various

She heard a voice within her saying to the tall, vaulted ash, "Inspire me!" to the little rose-colored centaurea of the wayside, "Teach me a charm to cure the harm I have done!"

The French Immortals Series — Complete Various

-- Border, Oxalis tropæoloides; center, blue heliotrope, blue ageratum, or Acalypha marginata; cross about the center, Thymus argenteus, or centaurea; scallop outside the cross, blue lobelia; corners, inside border, santolina.

Manual of Gardening (Second Edition) 1906

The _sentori_ (_centaurea_) for instance -- plentiful there, with its sweetly pretty mauve flower -- when boiled in water gave a bitter decoction good for fever.

Across Unknown South America Arnold Henry Savage Landor 1894

Those which now made the best show of bloom were the star-thistle centaurea and _ononis repens_.

Wanderings by southern waters, eastern Aquitaine Edward Harrison Barker 1885

She heard a voice within her saying to the tall, vaulted ash, "Inspire me!" to the little rose-colored centaurea of the wayside, "Teach me a charm to cure the harm I have done!"

A Woodland Queen — Complete Andr�� Theuriet 1870

Here one walks beside deep, grassy trenches, which appear to continue without end, along the forest level; farther, the wild mint and the centaurea perfume the shady nooks, the oaks and lime-trees arch their spreading branches, and the honeysuckle twines itself round the knotty shoots of the hornbeam, whence the thrush gives forth her joyous, sonorous notes.

A Woodland Queen — Complete Andr�� Theuriet 1870