Centaurea cyanus
Centaurea cyanus, commonly known as cornflower or bachelor's button, is an annual flowering plant in the family Asteraceae native to Europe. In the past, it often grew as a weed in cornfields, hence its name.
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Faded as the delicate petals of a cornflower after the harvest.
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Pale Cornflower is a pale grey.
It can be described as pale, delicate, faded and almost grey.
Set in black, because black reads best on it.
Pale Cornflower
Cornflower blue
Cornflower blue is a shade of medium-to-light blue containing relatively little green. This hue was one of the favorites of the Dutch painter Johannes Vermeer.
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Colorfulness, chroma and saturation are attributes of perceived color relating to chromatic intensity. As defined formally by the International Commission on Illumination (CIE) they respectively describe three different aspects of chromatic intensity, but the terms are often used loosely and interchangeably in contexts where these aspects are not clearly distinguished. The precise meanings of the terms vary by what other functions they are dependent on.
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Adjective
- Light in color.
- Having a pallor (a light color, especially due to sickness, shock, fright etc.).
Verb
- To turn pale; to lose colour.
- To become insignificant.
cornflower
Noun
- A small annual plant in the family Asteraceae, Centaurea cyanus, usually with bushy blue flowers which grows natively in European cornfields (i.e. wheatfields).
- A plant of the species Cichorium intybus.
Adjective
- Synonym of cornflower blue, a shade of blue similar to that of the usual cornflower.
Its neighbors.
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