Is this flower a type of cornflower?

[Maggiethecat]

Saw this beautiful flower while out yesterday.

Is it a type of cornflower?

Yes

No, it’s a knapweed. A perennial.

Yes, google lens is your friend

It's the wrong colour for common knapweed (photo below) - that's reddish pinky purple, cornflower is bright or dark blue https://www.plantlife.org.uk/plants-and-fungi/common-knapweed/

However, knapweed and cornflower are both in the Centaurea genus aka the knapweed family. They are Centaurea nigra and Centaurea cyanus. So all cornflowers are knapweeds - but not all knapweeds are cornflowers. It could also be Centaurea montana, I can't really tell the difference from the OP's photo, so this is from Wikipedia:

"[C. montana] may be distinguished from the cornflower, Centaurea cyanus, by having a single (rarely up to three) flower heads, and by its being perennial, whereas the cornflower has many flower heads and is annual."

I think it is out of the Mondays family.

Yes. I have it my garden, it seeds everywhere. Beware if you plant it, it grows quite spread out and can flop,over other plants, shading them out. I usually have to pull some of it up, but it always comes back. Pretty though, a love.y blue

It looks like a perennial cornflower.

Centaurea - it's in the same family as cornflower. It's a perennial so will come back year after year.

Agree with the Centaurea ID.The best thing about it is that it smells beautifully of tinned peaches.

Try it and report back. 😄

Love this! Have a little and will be sure to give it a sniff this year 😂

Mondara not Monday

I didn’t realise that I had bought 2 of these plants at the weekend! On offer at Morrisons and I liked the colours 😂