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	Centaurea alpestris Code: CEAL-A9 Price: $3.95 Quantity in Basket: none
	20 seeds
	Centaurea cyanus 'King Size Mix' Code: CENH-A Price: $1.30 Quantity in Basket: none
	'Cornflower' or 'Bachelor's Button' This is a tetraploid selection with extra large flowers on tall stems. A good choice for field grown cut flowers, plants grow 40 inches tall and come in many shades of pink, blue, red and white. 100 seeds
	Centaurea dealbata Lot D Code: CD01 Price: $2.00 Quantity in Basket: none
	'Persian Cornflower' kent-OW-ree-a: dee-al-BAH-ta) The species name alludes to the silver-white undersides of the leaves. Attractive deeply cut foliage and 2 inch wide, rose-pink colored flowers with softer colored tips. The flowers are shaped like sunflowers and have lacy fringed edges and fluffy centers. Plants grow 15 to 20 inches tall and about the same in width. Nice plant for a sunny location, growing well even in a dry area. Long lived plants that bloom late spring and early summer. Useful as an edging and the flowers can be used for cutting material too. Some rebloom often in the fall. Can self seed and plants grow into nice clumps that can be divided every few years. Full sun to some shade in well draining soils. Easy to grow under most garden conditions, does well in chalky soils too. Zones 3-9 Native from the Caucasus. Germination in less than two weeks at 68-78ºF, Cover seeds 1/5 inch deep. Darkness helps with germination. 50 seeds.
	Centaurea macrocephala Code: CM01 Price: $1.55 Quantity in Basket: none
	'Yellow Hard Head' or 'Globe Cornflower' (Kent-OW-ree-a: mak-ro-CEP-a-la) Large bright yellow-gold thistle like heads of flowers on top of 3 to 4 foot tall stems. Long lived plants that do very well in dry, well drained soils. In the spring long medium green leaves are produced near the ground and plants flower in late spring/early summer. The flowers are enclosed in bronze-copper colored bracts which make good cut flowers or dried decorations. After flowering the seed heads produce a 'button' of very soft white hairs, that can be clean up and used as an odd dried flower or fun tactile toy for children. Plants are large and somewhat coarse looking but the flowers are bright and showy while in bloom for a few weeks. A good plant for the 'neglected' garden, were they will live for many years and not need any extra care. The species name means 'large headed'. Zones 3-9. Native from the Caucasus. Sow at 70ºF, cover completely- darkness is helpful. Germination is spread out over a month or two. Might be helpful to soak the seeds in warm water for 12 hours before sowing. 30 seeds.
	Centaurea montana Code: CM02-A7 Price: $2.79 Quantity in Basket: none
	'Mountain Bluet' or 'Perennial Cornflower' Grows one foot tall and has very attractive 2 inch wide blue-violet flowers that have darker reddish - violet centers. Very showy flower display in late spring. Best growth in the north were it can form nice sized clumps by way of spreading underground stems, in the south plants are less robust growing and should be divided every three years to rejuvenate them. Generally an easy and adaptable garden plant with electric blue, pin-wheel shaped flowers for a few weeks, if dead headed some reblooming can occur. Full sun to open shade. Plants do self seed some and new plants can pop up here and there. Zones 3-9 Sow at 70ºF, cover completely - darkness is helpful. Germination is spread out over a month or two. Might be helpful to soak the seeds in warm water for 30 hours before sowing. The seeds should start to germinate in 3 to 4 weeks at 65 to 70 degrees and can be sown directly into the garden. Plants might also self sow to some degree. Use in full sun to part shade. Cut back after flowering for a second flush of growth and flowering later in the year. Native from higher elevations in Europe. 50 seeds.
	Centaurea montana 'Alba' Code: CMA2-A7 Price: $2.50 Quantity in Basket: none
	This seed selection produces plants that are about 75 percent white flowering the other 25 percent will have different degrees of blue flowers. Good sized flowers over attractive gray-green, cut foliage. Zones 4-9. 10 seeds
	Centaurea orientalis Code: CO01-A Price: $2.20 Quantity in Basket: none
	(kent-OW-ree-a) from the Greek word 'Kentaur' or Centaur (the winged Horses of pagan mythology)- which were believed to use the plants in this genus as medicine. this species has soft yellow flower heads over prickly look foliage, the flowers have interesting silvery bracts. Plants grow 2.5 feet tall. Blooms mid to late summer. Zones 6-9? Needs a dry sunny location. Native from South Eastern Europe. 20 seeds.
	Centaurea pulcherrima Code: CENT-A7 Price: $2.85 Quantity in Basket: none
	A nice clump forming perennial from a sturdy root with silvery green pinnatifid leaves (like a fern with lobes or leaflets arranged on two sides of a stem that is called a rachis (the center of a compound organ with its divisions producing a flat surface)) and good sized heads of rose-pink flowers in summer. Plants flower at around 15 to 19 inches tall with upright growing stems. It grows best in well drained soils in a sunny location that is dry or in rock crevices were it should be protection from winter wetness. One of the nicer species with large flowers up to 2 inches wide, but needing reasonably good drainage, notably in the winter. Zones (4)5-8. This species is native to Asia Minor - Anatolia, Transcaucasus and is found on rocky slope. Sow and use 70ºF, cover completely- darkness is helpful. Germination is spread out over a month or two. Might be helpful to soak the seeds in warm water for 30 hours before sowing. 10 seeds.
	Centaurea rothrockii Code: CERO-A7 Price: $2.00 Quantity in Basket: none
	[Plectocephalus rothrockii] 'Rothrock's Knapweed' or 'Mexican Basket Flower' Flowering Jul–Nov. Native from Arizona, New Mexico, N Mexico were it is found growing in damp soil near streams, along roadsides and in open pine-oak woodlands. 25 seeds
	Centaurea rupestris Code: 1CF1-A7 Price: $2.55 Quantity in Basket: none
	True yellow flowers, plants grow 10 inches tall. Zones (5)6-8. 10 seeds.
	Centaurea ruthenica Code: 1CE4-A2 Price: $2.95 Quantity in Basket: none
	Large yellow flowers. 10 seeds
	Centaurea scabiosa Lot A Code: 4SC1 Price: $2.00 Quantity in Basket: none
	'Great Knapweed' or 'Greater Knapweed' Asteraceae Nice sized purple flowers a top 2 foot tall stems. Zones 3-8 25 seeds.
	Centaurea uniflora ssp. nervosa Lot A Code: MNH4 Price: $1.90 Quantity in Basket: none
	'Singleflower Knapweed' Violet to pink-purple colored thistle like flowers. Plants grow 20 inches tall. Zones 4-8. 15 seeds.