Isn't this an interesting flower? I especially like the pattern on the part of the flower beneath the petals. I think this flower was labeled as a pincushion flower when I bought it last year.
This flower looks a lot like a thistle. There are problems here with wild thistles running wild in the landscape, choking out native plants. But this one appears to be OK - it's not spreading from seed (yet).
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I know this flower as a Batchelor Button. My grandmother use to grow them.
Here in the Northeast, we call these flowers a Perennial Batchelors Button, or Centaurea. There is also an annual called batchelor's button that is VERY similar. The 'pin cushion'to us is a Scabiosa (doesn't pin coushion sound so much prettier?).
Perennial Centaurea come in a few shades of purple/blue with whitish centers and also a white petal with the blue enters. The Annual is in many shades of light and dark pink, blues, purples, and white.
They are lovely! I have both types in my garden!
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