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Agrostemma githago - European annual having large trumpet-shaped reddish-purple flowers and poisonous seed; a common weed in grainfields and beside roadways; naturalized in America

corn campion, corn cockle, crown-of-the-field

Agrostemma, genus Agrostemma - a caryophylloid dicot genus including corn cockles

weed - any plant that crowds out cultivated plants

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Identified crop weeds were corncockle (Agrostemma githago), cornflower (Centaurea cyanus), bromes (Bromus sp.) and corn gromwell (Lithospermum arvense), as well as ball-mustard (Neslia paniculata) (Fig.

The 18th century sea fortress of Ruotsinsalmi, Kotkansaari in Finland: Archaeobotanical data of a log latrine

and Vida ervilia (L.) Willd.) and arable weeds (Agrostemma githago L., Bongardia chrysogonum (L.) Spach and Leontice leontopetalum L.).

Back to the roots: a quantitative survey of herbal drugs in Dioscorides' De Materia Medica (ex Matthioli, 1568)

Here I'd recommend the delightful corncockle, Agrostemma githago, an elegant annual with silky pink blooms (though toxic if eaten), the classic red poppy of remembrance, Papaver rhoeas, and the cornflower which will keep bumblebees happy from June through to September.

Home grown greats; Now's the time to think about what you'll be sowing this year - why not try British flowers?

Bromus secalinus (change index = -0.75) and Agrostemma githago (change index = -0.43) are both declining in parts of Europe, reflecting changes in agricultural practices (Heywood, 1989; Storkey et al., 2011).

Patterns and changes in the nonnative flora of Worcester County, Massachusetts

The effects of soil fertilizer on amino acids in the floral nectar of corncockle, Agrostemma githago L.

Psychophily and anemochory in Wendlandia tinctoria (Roxb.) DC. (Rubiaceae): a dry season blooming tree species in the dry deciduous Southern Eastern Ghats forest, Andhra Pradesh, India

tunilla [21, 94] Caryophyllaceae Agrostemma githago L.

Diversity and distribution of floral scent

Interference on pure and mixed populations of Agrostemma githago. J.

Competition and Crop Performance in a Leek-Celery Intercropping System

For Triticum aestivum and Agrostemma githago, data on the total biomass 3 mo after sowing as a function of seed densities were obtained from Fig.

Plant competition experiments: testing hypotheses and estimating the probability of coexistence