A delicate wildflower with bright blue petals that historically grew among grain crops, now cultivated as an ornamental garden flower.
From corn (grain) plus flower, because it grew abundantly in grain fields; originally called 'bluebottle' in some regions.
Cornflowers nearly went extinct when farmers invented herbicides—these flowers had lived alongside grain for thousands of years, but modern farming almost erased them completely.
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