NOUN
- tropical American herb having rose to red or purple flowers that can be dried without losing color
- an annual Eurasian plant cultivated in North America having showy heads of blue or purple or pink or white flowers
How To Use bachelor's button In A Sentence
- The Bachelor's Button is an old-fashioned flower, a roadside attraction with familiar blue blossoms, also known as the cornflower.
- A common country name for it was bachelor's buttons. Times, Sunday Times
- The Bachelor's Button is an old-fashioned flower, a roadside attraction with familiar blue blossoms, also known as the cornflower.
- Numerous flowers are called Bachelor's Buttons, including daisies, globe flowers, pyrethrums, and different kinds of ranunculi, but here we have the "original and true;" probably it originated in some ancient English garden, as Gerarde says, "It groweth in the gardens of herbarists & louers of strange plants, whereof we have good plentie, but it groweth not wild anywhere. Hardy Perennials and Old Fashioned Flowers Describing the Most Desirable Plants, for Borders, Rockeries, and Shrubberies.
- Many flowers like bachelor's buttons, violas, calendula, pansies, & roses are edible as well as beautiful.
- I direct seed bachelor's buttons, bupleurum, bells of Ireland, coreopsis, zinnias, some sunflowers and more.
- A common country name for it was bachelor's buttons. Times, Sunday Times