We’ve been sowing and lining out Centaurea for a few years looking for color breaks, and while we’re sure that this is a seedling of C. orientalis, we’re not precisely sure who the father is. Thanks to the book, ‘The Secret Lives of Color’, however, we now have the color vocabulary to describe the range of pale yellow tones found in this in-house seedling. The tasteful, gateway yellow for those who turn up their noses at the side of the highway color palettes of N. America. Z4, 3’ tall. Quart pot.