An excellent, durable substitute is the perennial cornflower Centaurea montana.

Centaurea montana (perennial cornflower, mountain cornflower, bachelor's button, montane knapweed or mountain bluet) is a species of Centaurea endemic to Europe.

Characteristic plants here include the Monkshood, Northern Wolfsbane, Common Moonwort, Martagon Lily, Greater Butterfly Orchid, Perennial Cornflower and Wig Knapweed.

On rock outcrops grape hyacinths, mountain cornflowers and snakeshead fritillaries bloom among a sprinkling of buttercups.

Centaurea montana (perennial cornflower, mountain cornflower, bachelor's button, montane knapweed or mountain bluet) is a species of Centaurea endemic to Europe.

Bachelor's Button was the stronger, and went on to win by a length.

The good old-fashioned bachelor's button, an annual, always seems to be hard to grow.

Bachelor's buttons is a common name for several plant species:

It is also sometimes referred to as bachelor's buttons or featherfew.

By midsummer we could not see out the windows for the foxglove and the bachelor's buttons.

The yellow ball was day lilies, the blue ball was bachelor's buttons.

"That's a lovely centerpiece of bachelor's buttons and cowslips, Eleanor.

The crowd was stunned, and Bachelor's Button returned to unsaddle in almost complete silence.

This is a delightful perennial with daisylike flowers suggesting oversized bachelor's buttons.

He dug up old flowers, clearing the colorless bed for new flats of bachelor's buttons and phlox.

Bachelor's Button and Pretty Polly brought up the rear.

Both were graced with edible nasturtiums and bachelor's buttons from the owners' backyard organic garden.

Bond got the bachelor's button.

Bachelor's Button throws the racing world into mourning by beating Pretty Polly.

Mr. Button claimed he planted bachelor's buttons and salvia "uglynosa" for himself.

All possess bachelor's button discovered by Rualdus Columbus.

Bachelor's buttons, a term that denotes a plant with spherical-shaped flowers, was created as a metaphor of the male testes.

Cornflower or bachelor's buttons: 18 inches; fluffy round flowers in purple, white or pink.

Think of the low ones you can't stoop to tonight, she thought, the nasturtiums, the pansies, the bachelor's buttons, the ragged robins.

Pansies filled in the lower level, and bachelor's buttons peeked out from hiding among the taller plants like secret prizes for the cunning examiner.

Maher on Bachelor's Button, however, was still convinced that his mount could outstay her and held on tenaciously.

Among the easiest hardy annuals to sow on snow are larkspur, sweet peas, Shirley poppies and bachelor's buttons.

Some hardy annuals likely to seed themselves are calendula, bachelor's button, cosmos, nicotiana, larkspur and forget-me-nots.

But now my love is dead: I found a Bachelor's Button In black-eyed Susan's Bed.

The school flower is the blue cornflower or bachelor's button, Centaurea cyanus, was chosen by Miss Livingston.

Centaurea montana (perennial cornflower, mountain cornflower, bachelor's button, montane knapweed or mountain bluet) is a species of Centaurea endemic to Europe.