Cornflower (Centaurea cyanus) Botanical Illustration | Plant Anatomy Guide #68161 (License: Personal Use)

This precise black-and-white botanical illustration depicts Centaurea cyanus (common cornflower), featuring a fully bloomed flower with ray and disc florets, an unopened bud, and a longitudinal cross-section revealing the ovary, stamens, and pappus. The slender stems and narrow, alternate leaves are rendered with fine linework typical of scientific flora plates. The scale bar indicates accurate proportional detail for taxonomic study.

Used in botanical textbooks, online plant databases, educational websites, and herbarium documentation to support species identification and morphological study; targets users seeking authoritative visual references for Asteraceae family plants.