 | Pincushion Flower Seeds ( Scabiosa atropurpurea ). When Thomas Jefferson requested roots and bulbs of the "Mourning bride" from his friend and neighbor, Isaac Coles, in 1811, he may have been referring to the Pincushion Flower. Also known as Scabiosa because of its skin-healing medicinal qualities, and Mourning bride because of its association with grieving widows in eighteenth-century England, Pincushion Flower was sold by Philadelphia nurseryman Bernard McMahon in 1804. Pincushion Flower is a half-hardy annual that is cherished for its velvet-like... - Pincushion Flower Seeds ( Scabiosa atropurpurea ). |
