#cornflower

• Cornflower — An annual or biennial herbaceous plant of the Asteraceae family (Centaurea cyanus), with a fibrous and branched stem, narrow leaves, and flowers grouped in flower heads of an intense blue color, which usually grows as a weed in cereal fields (wheat, rye); cornflower. In traditional phytotherapy and cosmetics, infusions of its dried flowers are recognized for their anti-inflammatory, soothing, and astringent properties, being used especially for eye care.
• Little cornflower — A popular, regional, or affective diminutive for 'albăstrea' or 'albăstriță'; a term used in certain rural communities to denote the small, intense azure flower found in wheat fields (Centaurea cyanus) or dwarf species of violets and bluebells. In traditional lyric poetry, the word carries a strong hypocoristic value, suggesting the fragility and discrete beauty of spontaneous flora.
• Cornflower — Current popular name for the cornflower (Centaurea cyanus), a herbaceous plant of the Asteraceae family, with bright, intense, and pure blue flowers, widespread in wheat and rye fields. Also, the term is used in medicine and biology to denote the parasitic fungus (Ceratocystis pilifera) that produces the aesthetic defect called soft wood blue stain.
• Cornflower — A popular name given to several species of herbaceous plants from the Asteraceae family, with white, bluish, or purple flowers, or a regional variant for the cornflower plant that commonly grows in cereal crops.
• Cornflower — A popular or regional name attributed to the plant known as white cornflower or to other herbaceous field species with light-colored, whitish, or pale flowers; an isolated phonetic variant for albinea.