Bachelor's Button *

Centaurea cyanus

Family: Asteraceae(radiate) (SUNFLOWER).
Other common names: garden cornflower.
Generic common name: KNAPWEED, STAR-THISTLE.

Location: Malibu Creek State Park: Cistern Trail, chaparral, June 2005.

Characteristics: non-Native, Blue, Large, Solitary, Simple, Herbaceous, Annual, Late Spring.

Cultivar probably deliberately distributed by hikers. This flower structure is actually radiant, rather than radiate.