Every country garden needs sunflowers! Not only are they are one of the easiest annuals to grow from seed, their cheerful ...

Why not grow some annual sunflowers, Helianthus annuus, to feed the bees, butterflies, birds, and you? They are so easy to ...

Here's what to know about each kind of sunflower. There are close to 150 species of sunflowers in the genus Helianthus. Most are characterized by brightly colored flowers and rough, sandpaper-like ...

He helps breed better versions of the domesticated plant, Helianthus annuus, whose seeds we snack on and whose oil we cook with. It’s here that breeders make sunflowers more resistant to ...

What’s more, they’re one of the easiest flowers to grow, so it won’t be hard to learn how to plant sunflower seeds and when to do it. Otherwise known as Helianthus, the sunflower is native ...

The common sunflower (Helianthus annuus L.) is a species of the Asteraceae family. The plant seeds are edible, and manufacturers use them for foods and producing sunflower oil. As such ...

Sunflower seeds are technically the fruits of the sunflower plant (Helianthus annuus). The seeds are harvested from the plant’s large flower heads, which can measure more than 12 inches (30.5 cm ...

For those who enjoy starting plants from seed, the annual Silver-Leaf Sunflower (Helianthus argophyllus) a native of Texas, Florida and North Carolina, is a spectacular annual sunflower.