Name: Bachelor's Button, Mountain Bluet
Brand: NVK Nurseries
SKU: 201-1G
Price: 12.0 CAD
Availability: InStock

Centaurea montana

This upright perennial bears blue flowers in summer.

Blue flowers are produced in summer, providing colour through the bloom season.
Upright clump, reaching 60 cm at maturity; divide every three to four years to maintain vigour.
Best in full sun with moist, well-drained soil.

Size

1 gal

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Plant Characteristics

Sunlight

Full sun

Soil Moisture

Well-drained, Moist, Average

Drought Tolerant

✓

Hardiness Zone

2 – 2

Mature Height (meters)

0.4 – 0.6

Mature Spread (meters)

0.5 – 0.6

Growth Rate

Medium

Flower Colour

Blue

Foliage Colour

Gray

Bloom Time

Summer

Habit

Upright

Deer Resistant

✓

Rabbit Resistant

✓

Pollinator Friendly

✓

Landscape Uses

Border, Accent

Notes

Also referred to as Perennial Bachelor's Button, Perennial Cornflower. Listed asinvasivein Northern Minnesota, Northern Michigan and Alaska, among other places. Consider substitutingNepeta faassenii'Cat's Pajamas' or similar.