cornflower

One of the ancient Roman legends says that this flower got its name in honor of a blue-eyed youth named Cyanus, who was amazed at its beauty, collected these blue flowers and wove garlands and wreaths from them. The young man even dressed in a blue dress and did not leave the fields until all of his favorite cornflowers were collected to the last. A handsome young man was once found dead in a grain field, surrounded by cornflowers. Upon learning of this, the goddess Flora, for such constancy and as a sign of a special disposition towards him, turned the body of the young man into a cornflower, and all cornflowers began to be called cyanuses (cyanus means blue).