cornflower aster

1. 1.

   erect perennial of southeastern United States having large heads of usually blue flowers

   Synonymsstokes' asterStokesia laevis

   Broaderflower

   Part ofStokesia

Questions about cornflower aster

What does cornflower aster mean?

cornflower aster means "erect perennial of southeastern United States having large heads of usually blue flowers".

What is another word for cornflower aster?

Close synonyms include stokes' aster, Stokesia laevis. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is cornflower aster a common word?

cornflower aster is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.