Plant Details

Accepted name:: Centaurea cyanus L. [Asteraceae]
Source:: World Checklist ( Medium Taxonomic Confidence )
More about this plant:: Plants of the World Online

Non-scientific name:	Class of name:	Medicinal source:
azulejo	Other	Med. Pl. of the World (Wyk & Wink, 2004)
bachelor s buttons	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
bachelor s-button	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
bachelor's button	Other	Herbs of Commerce (McGuffin et al., 2000)
bachelor's-button	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999)
bachelor’s button	Other	Med. Pl. of the Russian Pharm. (Shikov, 2014)
barbeau	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999)
blaver	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999)
bleuet	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999) Med. Pl. of the World (Wyk & Wink, 2004) Pl. Méd. de la Pharmacopée: Liste A (2000)
blue bottle	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999)
blue cornflower	Other	Med. Pl. of the Russian Pharm. (Shikov, 2014) Med. Pl. of the World (Wyk & Wink, 2004)
blue-poppy	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999)
bluebonnets	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999)
bluebottle	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
blåklint	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999)
brushes	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999)
casse lunette	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999)
centaurea cyanus	Pharmaceutical	E-Kommission: Approved Status (1984-1994)
centaurée bleuet	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999)
corn flower	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
corn-pinks	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999)
cornflower	Other	Ethnomedica (RBG, Kew, 2020) Food & Med. in Rural Sweden, Ukraine & NW Russia (Stryamets et al., 2015) GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999) Herbs of Commerce (McGuffin et al., 2000) Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020) Tea and Herbal Infusions Europe Pl. Inventory (THIE, 2021) U.S. FDA Substance Registration System (2016)
cyani	Other	Herbs of Commerce (McGuffin et al., 2000)
cyani flos	Pharmaceutical	E-Kommission: Unapproved Status (1984-1994) Med. Pl. of the World (Wyk & Wink, 2004)
dān shēn hàn de niǔ kòu	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
fioraliso	Other	Med. Pl. of the World (Wyk & Wink, 2004)
flores centaureae cyani	Pharmaceutical	Med. Pl. of the Russian Pharm. (Shikov, 2014)
hurtsickle	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999) Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
kornblume	Other	E-Kommission: Approved Status (1984-1994) GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999) Med. Pl. of the World (Wyk & Wink, 2004) Tea and Herbal Infusions Europe Pl. Inventory (THIE, 2021)
kornblumenblüten	Other	E-Kommission: Unapproved Status (1984-1994)
shi che ju	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999)
shǐ chē jú	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
thimbles	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999)
vasiljok posevnoj	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999)
vasiljok sinij	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999)
witch's-bells	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999)
волошки сині	Other	Food & Med. in Rural Sweden, Ukraine & NW Russia (Stryamets et al., 2015)
单身汉的钮扣	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
矢车菊	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)

Part(s) of plant used:	Drug form:	Medicinal source:
capitulum		Pl. Méd. de la Pharmacopée: Liste A (2000)
flower		Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
flower		Med. Pl. of the World (Wyk & Wink, 2004)

Kew's taxonomic resources include 21 scientific synonym(s) for this plant:

Cyanus segetum Hill Herb. Brit. 1: 82 (1769).
Centaurea cyaneum St.-Lag. Ann. Soc. Bot. Lyon 7: 122 (1880), not validly publ.
Centaurea cyanocephala Velen. Abh. Königl. Böhm. Ges. Wiss., ser. 7, 1(8): 26 (1886).
Centaurea cyanus subsp. coa Rech.f. Phyton (Horn) 1: 216 (1949).
Centaurea cyanus var. denudata Suksd. Werdenda 1: 43 (1927).
Centaurea hoffmanniana Asch. Fl. Nordostdeut. Flachl.: 752 (1899).
Centaurea hortorum Pau Not. Bot. Fl. Españ. 1: 12 (1887).
Centaurea lanata Roxb. Fl. Ind., ed. 1832. 3: 444 (1832).
Centaurea pulcherrima Wight ex DC. Prodr. 6: 578 (1838), not validly publ.
Centaurea pulchra DC. in R.Wight, Contr. Bot. India: 25 (1834).
Centaurea rhizocephala Trautv. Trudy Imp. S.-Peterburgsk. Bot. Sada 2: 476 (1873).
Centaurea segetalis Salisb. Prodr. Stirp. Chap. Allerton: 207 (1796), nom. superfl.
Centaurea umbrosa A.Huet ex Reut. Index Seminum (G, Genevensis) 1856: 4 (1856).
Cyanus arvensis Moench Methodus: 561 (1794).
Cyanus cyanus Hill Hort. Kew.: 64 (1768).
Cyanus dentato-folius Gilib. Fl. Lit. Inch. 1: 191 (1782), opus utique oppr.
Cyanus vulgaris Delarbre Fl. Auvergne, ed. 2: 203 (1800).
Jacea segetalis Lam. ex Steud. Nomencl. Bot., ed. 2, 1: 795 (1840).
Jacea segetum Lam. Fl. Franç. 2: 54 (1779).
Leucacantha cyanus Nieuwl. & Lunell Amer. Midl. Naturalist 5: 71 (1917).
Setachna cyanus Dulac Fl. Hautes-Pyrénées: 520 (1867).

This plant is cited in medicinal sources using the following names:

Name as published:	Medicinal source:
Centaurea cyanus	Ethnomedica (RBG, Kew, 2020) Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022) Substances in Meds., Australia (TGA, 2007)
Centaurea cyanus L.	Food & Med. in Rural Sweden, Ukraine & NW Russia (Stryamets et al., 2015) GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999) Hagers Handbuch (Hänsel et al., 1992-1998) Herbs of Commerce (McGuffin et al., 2000) Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020) Med. Pl. of the Russian Pharm. (Shikov, 2014) Med. Pl. of the World (Wyk & Wink, 2004) Med. and Magical Pl. of S Africa (Arnold et al., 2002) Pl. Med. Totius Mundi (Penso & Proserpio, 1997) Pl. Méd. de la Pharmacopée: Liste A (2000) Tea and Herbal Infusions Europe Pl. Inventory (THIE, 2021) U.S. FDA Substance Registration System (2016) WHODrug Herbal Substances (WHO-UMC, 2019) World Checklist of Useful Pl. Spp. (Diazgranados et al., 2020) World Dictionary of Med. & Pois. Pl. (Quattrocchi, 2012)
Centaurea cyanus Linné	E-Kommission: Approved Status (1984-1994) E-Kommission: Unapproved Status (1984-1994)
Cyanus segetum Hill	Tea and Herbal Infusions Europe Pl. Inventory (THIE, 2021)

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