Allium-like flower for ID, please!

[Maedin Tureaud]

Again, photographed in Somerset. Reminds me of allium but I really am not sure, and I need a species ID ideally! Hope you clever people can help, ;-)

[metalfish]

looks like it could be a garden escapee- a scabious or knapweed variety. I don't recognise it as a wild flower, but that doesn't mean it isn't.
Pretty flower though isn't it

[KeenTeen17]

Centaurea is correct. Not sure which variation or species it is. Its definitely not the Greater Knapweed which is wild and is different to this

[Hedera]

It's definitely not allium family, but some kind of centaurea, cornflower or knapweed. There are several garden varieties of these; I have a similar one. has it got a hard scaly "head" under the petals?

[Maedin Tureaud]

I wish I could tell you, Hedera :-( My first experience with taking pictures of flowers and overall I seem to have focused a bit too much on blooms and not enough on the rest of the plants themselves!

Thank you all for your suggestions and I will look into them further.

Oh, and fancy me thinking it might be an allium! I told you I'm hopeless, lol

[Maedin Tureaud]

I'm going to go for Centaurea dealbata. Hope that's right!

[metalfish]

Originally Posted by Maedin Tureaud

I wish I could tell you, Hedera :-( My first experience with taking pictures of flowers and overall I seem to have focused a bit too much on blooms and not enough on the rest of the plants themselves!

Thank you all for your suggestions and I will look into them further.

Oh, and fancy me thinking it might be an allium! I told you I'm hopeless, lol

No, not hopeless, I can see why you thought alium with the petal formation, they tend to have hollow stems (I'm generalising here), just think of spring onions & the green stem. Then the flower takes a more ball like form.

Taking a photo to id an unknown flower is really difficult, take a few of different bits..leaf etc, then you can still take a pretty picture of the flower
Also give the plant a rub & sniff (take what you will from that comment!) the flower or leaf could be scented or have a specific texture.

I actually find it easier to remember a plant from what it feels like & smells like, this WAB site has been a good challenge to recognise plants by flower alone.

[Maedin Tureaud]

I did better yesterday, I tried to take photos of the rest of the plants, not just the blooms! I didn't think to rub them or sniff them though O_o I'll try that, too!

Thanks for your advice,

[Hedera]

You are getting on fine. We don't all get everything right first time, and the members of this site are so good.
Be careful not to touch your face with plants you don't know: they may cause a reaction or rash, especially if you have crushed them.