We analyzed the metabolic intermediate and final products, including anthocyanins and flavones, in 82 cultivars of Chinese chrysanthemum (Chrysanthemum × morifolium) divided into 6 groups by color: white, pink, red, purple, reddish-purple and dark-red. High-performance liquid chromatography (HPLC) with a photodiode array detector (HPLC-PAD) and HPLC-electrospray ionization-mass spectrometry (HPLC-ESI-MSn) were used for qualitative and quantitative analysis of anthocyanin and flavone. The higher the cyanin a...