The Maximilian sunflower, shown here, grows in a much more linear fashion compared to the common sunflower. These are blooming during a recent fall north of Iowa Park.© Jim Goetze/Times Record News ...

The common sunflower (Helianthus annuus) with its familiar blooms has been cultivated by Native Americans as far back as 3,000 B.C. They utilized these lofty giants in medicine and as a vital food ...

“Butterfly milkweed has showy clusters of vibrant red to orange, tubular blooms attract a wide variety of pollinators, ...

They ate its seeds and used it for oil, flour, dye, and body paint. Helianthus annuus, the common sunflower, is no lone star, but a composite flower — an entire galaxy on every stem.

Humans and sunflowers go way back. American Indians first domesticated the plant — prized for its seeds, oil and beauty — around 3,000 B.C. Over the next 5,000 years, the common sunflower, Helianthus ...

The common sunflower (Helianthus annuus), however, expresses a different kind of process, heliotropism, which means ‘Sun turning,’ which has long been thought of as a specialized type of ...

An in-row competition study was conducted in 1991 and 1992 near Silver Lake, KS to determine the relationship of noncultivated common sunflower density to soybean yield, PAR at the soybean canopy, and ...