The sunflower has a rich history as a North American native plant. Records show that as early as 3000 B.C., Native Americans cultivated sunflowers as food and pressed seeds to make oil. Although still ...

Sunflowers are fun, cheerful, easy to grow plants native to North America. Native Americans ground the seeds for flour and used the oil for cooking and dressing hair. The sunflower also provided dyes ...

You may have noticed that sunflowers can move their 'heads' or capitula to track the sun as its position changes during the day. But as the capitula mature, their stems start to get stiffer and less ...