Centaurea cyanus · Probable
Cornflower
Centaurea cyanus
Cornflower as the probable identity of Culpeper's blue-bottle entry.
Profile research status
This stable record is still in evidence review. Its current identity, cultural scope, image, and direct source records are available here; a complete history, myth, worship, iconography, relationship, and reception profile is not yet claimed.
Direct connections and evidence
Explicit Source
governed by Saturn
1 attestation · high confidence
- Nicholas Culpeper, The Complete HerbalNew edition with additions by Thomas Kelly · Project Gutenberg · Seventeenth-century England · England · Entry Blue-Bottle · Section Government and virtues · Page 28
Reviewed sources
- Nicholas Culpeper, The Complete Herbal (1850)New edition with additions by Thomas Kelly · Project Gutenberg