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Agrostemma githago

Agrostemma githago
Common Corn Cockle
This cheerful roadside weed with big purple flowers has a checkered history. It once flourished around farm fields, but the leaves, flowers, and seeds are all poisonous if eaten.

Agrostemma githago(L.)
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Agrostemma githago 'Milas Purple Queen' (corn cockle): With purple-red flowers.
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Agrostemma githago
Corn cockle
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Agrostemma githago is the corn cockle, a beautiful hardy annual with large, five-petalled magenta flowers (pale lilac in the variety Milas), 2 to 3 in. across on 2 to 3-ft. Stems. The long narrow leaves are greyish.

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Agrostemma githago
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Common Corncockle (Agrostemma githago) - also written "corn cockle" and "corn-cockle" and known locally simply as "the corncockle" -, is a slender pink flower of European wheat fields.

The seeds of corn cockle (Agrostemma githago) contains saponins and cause toxicity similar to that of bouncing bet. In the case of corn cockle, the poisonings occurred when seeds contaminated prepared feeds.

The same name is used by Charlemagne in his Capitulare de Villis for nigella (see lovage). In modern English, gith is more often used for corn cockle (Agrostemma githago ) also distinguished by black seeds, which, however, contain toxic saponines.