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Bachelor's Button (Centaurea cyanus) INTRODUCED. Growing in a roadside meadow in Floyd County, GA. <br />
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Photos taken almost a decade ago, so please excuse the quality!<br />
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Bachelor's Button (Centaurea cyanus)

INTRODUCED. Growing in a roadside meadow in Floyd County, GA.

Photos taken almost a decade ago, so please excuse the quality!

Bachelor's Button (Centaurea cyanus) INTRODUCED. Growing in a roadside meadow in Floyd County, GA. <br />
<br />
Photos taken almost a decade ago, so please excuse the quality!<br />
https://www.jungledragon.com/image/64433/bachelors_button_centaurea_cyanus.html<br />
https://www.jungledragon.com/image/64431/bachelors_button_centaurea_cyanus.html<br />
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Bachelor's Button (Centaurea cyanus) INTRODUCED. Growing in a roadside meadow in Floyd County, GA. <br />
<br />
Photos taken almost a decade ago, so please excuse the quality!<br />
https://www.jungledragon.com/image/64434/bachelors_button_centaurea_cyanus.html<br />
https://www.jungledragon.com/image/64433/bachelors_button_centaurea_cyanus.html<br />
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Bachelor's Button (Centaurea cyanus) INTRODUCED. Growing in a roadside meadow in Floyd County, GA. <br />
<br />
Photos taken almost a decade ago, so please excuse the quality!<br />
https://www.jungledragon.com/image/64434/bachelors_button_centaurea_cyanus.html<br />
https://www.jungledragon.com/image/64431/bachelors_button_centaurea_cyanus.html<br />
https://www.jungledragon.com/image/64435/bachelors_button_centaurea_cyanus.html Bachelors button,Centaurea cyanus,Geotagged,Spring,United States

    comments (4)

  1. A flower with greetings from Europe :) Posted 7 years ago
    1. Indeed! Posted 7 years ago
  2. Lovely! Posted 7 years ago
    1. Thank you! I found these when digging through my VERY OLD folders! Posted 7 years ago

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''Centaurea cyanus'' is an annual flowering plant in the family Asteraceae native to Europe. In the past, it often grew as a weed in cornfields , hence its name. It is now endangered in its native habitat by agricultural intensification, particularly by over-use of herbicides.

Similar species: Asterales
Species identified by Flown Kimmerling
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By Flown Kimmerling

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Uploaded Aug 6, 2018. Captured Apr 26, 2009 23:08 in 290 Burlington Rd NE, Rome, GA 30161, USA.
  • Canon EOS DIGITAL REBEL XTi
  • f/10.0
  • 1/250s
  • ISO400
  • 55mm