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corn cockle

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corn cockle
n.
A weedy annual Mediterranean plant (Agrostemma githago) having reddish-purple flowers and opposite leaves.
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Noun1.corn cockle - European annual having large trumpet-shaped reddish-purple flowers and poisonous seedcorn cockle - European annual having large trumpet-shaped reddish-purple flowers and poisonous seed; a common weed in grainfields and beside roadways; naturalized in America
Agrostemma githago, corn campion, 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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Plants such as Corn Marigold, Corn Cockle, Camomile, Cambridge Milk Parsley, Field Scabious, Field Poppy, Greater Knapweed, Ox Eye Daisy, Ragged Robin, Teasel, along with meadow turf are ideal for attracting insects, with the added benefit of helping to ensure good pollination of flowers.
6 steps to an outdoor paradise by Coventry Evening Telegraph (England)
Every wayside, every path, every field fringed with the blood red of poppies and corn cockles, the white frills of dog daisies and the cobalt blue of cornflowers.
Fading world that must be saved by Daily Post (Liverpool, England)
But from the air, its traces will surely be seen for ages, and wandering through the meadow that is to replace it, people will be surprised to find corn cockle, vetch, devil's bit scabious, selfheal, agrimony, yarrow, ox-eye daisy and quaking grass: the plants of old England, all strangely gathered within the walls.
Delight by DAVEY, PETER / The Architectural Review
 
 
 
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