Long-flowering from late June right up to the first hard frost of autumn, Scabiosa atropurpurea is an upright hardy annual, biennial, or half-hardy perennial, two to four feet tall, clumping to a foot or so wide.
Scabiosa atropurpurea
Plants of Home and Garden
Annual; easy from seed. May be started indoors up to 8 weeks before last frost, sow shallowly at 70-75F/21-24C, or directly outside in midspring.
Scabiosa atropurpurea or sweet scabious make delightful cut flowers with their long, stiff, 3-ft. Stems and round pincushion heads of white, pink, scarlet, mauve, blue or maroon. There are also doubles and dwarf strains.
Scabiosa atropurpurea ( Blue Cockade Pincushion Flower )
Scabiosa atropurpurea ( Double Pincushion Flower )
Scabiosa atropurpurea ( Dwarf Double Pincushion Flower ) ...
Pincushion flower, Scabiosa atropurpurea
Pinks, Dianthus chinensis
Plectranthus, Silver, Plectranthus argentatus ...
Scabiosa grandiflora (Scabiosa atropurpurea)
Scadoxus multiflorus katherinae (Haemanthus katharinae)
Scaevola 'Mauve Clusters'
Scaevola aemula 'Blue Wonder'
Scallion (Allium fistulosum)
Scallions (Allium cepa green onion) ...
Pincushion flower (Scabiosa atropurpurea), and common scabious (S. caucasica) are popular relatives. In fact, there are dozens of cultivars of the latter, some of which have been in cultivation for more than a century.
Scabiosa atropurpurea (Mourning Bride)
Scabiosa caucasica (Caucasian Pincushion Flower)
Scabiosa columbaria (Pincushion Flower)
Scabiosa ochroleuca (Cream Pincushions)
Scabiosa stellata (Starflower Pincushions) ...
Salpiglossis 'Chocolate Royale' Velvety trumpets in rich brown shades on foot-tall plants.
I. Scabiosa atropurpurea 'Black' Rich, velvety, dark crimson blooms on stems to 2½ feet tall.
In the other type the primary axis terminates FIG. 9. - Head of flowers(capitulum) of Scabiosa atropurpurea. The inflorescence is simple and indeterminate, and the expansion of the flowers centripetal, those at the circumference opening first.
morningbride Scabiosa atropurpurea
Morrow's honeysuckle Lonicera morrowii
moth mullein Verbascum blattaria
mouse-ear hawkweed Hieracium pilosella
mugwort; common wormwood; felon herb Artemisia vulgaris
multiflora rose; rambler rose Rosa multiflora ...
 See also: Scabiosa, Pink, Lily, May, Quercus
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