Sunflowers - Growing a Banner of Summer, the Sunflower
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Sunflowers are among the late summer flowering plants.
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Sunflowers: Helianthus annuus
Botanical name: Helianthus annuus
Common name: Sunflower, Giant Sungold
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Sunflowers (Helianthus annuus)
Winning qualities: They're the 'essence of summer,' as Kolla says, and they're especially easy to grow.
Sunflowers
Modern sunflowers are much more than one huge yellow flower on a tall stalk. Many new varieties have been developed. Flowers range from two-colored or banded, to chestnut red or pale yellow.
Sunflower
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any plant of the genus Helianthus of the family Asteraceae (aster family), annual or perennial herbs native to the New World and common throughout the United States.
Sunflower seeds are ripe when they all fall off the head, or the birds start eating them. To prevent loss, cover the heads with a paper sack once the yellow petals start turning brown.
A sunflower bloom is not really a flower but a specialized flat inflorescence that bears hundreds of tiny individual flowers.
Sunflower Heliopsis
A beautiful selection with golden yellow semidouble flowers in mid summer.
Height
3-4 Feet ...
Giant Sunflower (Tall Sunflower)
Helianthus giganteus
There are around 10 sunflower species that grow in Connecticut, best distinguished by their leaves.
Annual Sunflower
Varying widely in size and character, these tough, sun-tolerant plants need lots of space. They have big, bold flowers and can spread rapidly.
Common Sunflower
Helianthus annuus L..
Family: Asteraceae, Aster or Composite
Genus: Helianthus ...
Oxe-Eye Sunflower are perennials from open spots in prairies and sunny mountain meadows in North America. They develop numerous and very colorful, bright yellow flowers on medium to tall stalks throughout summer.
Sunflower lore says the sunflower brings blessings of the sun into your garden. If a woman wants to conceive, she should eat the seeds. Even if it did not work, at least she would be eating healthy snacks while she waits.
Sunflower seeds can be roasted (do this with an adult). They will have a nut-like flavor.
Sunflower-seed oil-cake is a valuable article for bringing up the feeding value of some of the poultry foods and was specially in demand for this purpose in war-time, when the supply of good cereals ran short.
This Sunflower was brought into cultivation over three thousand years ago by Native Americans in what is now the western U. S. They selected the largest seeds to plant and thus produced a much larger seed than the wild plant had.
Beach Sunflower is the flower which is more commonly seen in home gardens in cities. It should be distinguished from the real Sunflower, which is a larger plant, with larger flowers.
This "sunflower" does not have flower petals. It is one of 20 sunflowers in Florida. Rayless sunflower is frequent in wet flatwoods in the northern counties south to the central peninsula, of Florida and Collier county.
Dark Eye Sunflower, Purpledisk Sunflower
Scientific Name: Helianthus atrorubens L.
Synonym: Helianthus atrorubens var. alsodes
Family: Asteraceae ...
The common sunflower is easily grown from seed and is available in a variety of colors and heights up to 10 feet tall. A true sun worshipper, its head follows the sun as it crosses the sky.
The uniqueness of the Aster or Sunflower family is that what first seems to be a single large flower is actually a composite of many smaller flowers.
hee-lee-OP-sis Common Name: Ox eye, False sunflower
This genus contains a dozen or so species of North American perennials from dry prairies and open woodland.
Common Name: Western Sunflower
Latin Name: Helianthis occidentalis
Habitat: Dry woodlands, prairies, roadsides
Blooms: Summer ...
Sunflower (Hellanthus sp). With large, cheerful, yellow, flat flowers on a hairy stem 3-15 feet high. Common in many Bermuda gardens as H. annuus. Native of USA and New World.
The Sunflower family of plants is regarded as mostly herbaceous to us northern hemisphere gardeners. Well, guess what? It is a gigantic and widespread family; many members are woody, and some are even trees.
Oxeye Sunflower
Oxeye sunflower, Heliopsis helianthoides, is also a weedy perennial. The stems grow as tall as 5 feet; each holds a single large blossom that resembles black-eyed Susans.
GIANT SUNFLOWER - Helianthus giganteus
GIBBERELLIC ACID
Editor's Mailbag. 1980 #2, pp 4-6
Gibberellic Acid and the Mangosteen. By Alois Falkenstein, M.D.. 1989, #3 p 7
Gibberellic Acid - Fruit Set and Fruit Germination. By John M. Riley.
Sunflowers make a beautiful backdrop for shorter bloomers in a Gatlinburg, Tennesee churchyard garden.
Features
Kansas' State Flower produces the world's second most important and valuable oil seed.
Sunflower Seeds Can Harm Plants
by Charlie Nardozzi
Sclerotinia fungal disease infects nearly 360 different plants, including such favorites as beans, cabbage, tomatoes, lettuce, sunflowers, petunias, zinnias, and poppies.
Sunflower seeds are not only an edible snack, but they are large seeds easy for kids to hold and manipulate. Here's how to go about planting sunflower seeds for yourself.
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Sunflower Family, Compositae Family, United States, England, Solidago Virgaurea, Antiseptic
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Sunflowers, legumes (beans, peas, soybeans etc), peanuts, cucurbits (squash, cucumbers, melons, etc), amaranth, white geranium, lamb's quarters, morning glory, parsley, and potato
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Stiff Sunflower, Hairy Sunflower, Sunflower,Stiff
Species:
Helianthus hirsutus ...
Mexican Sunflower
Tithonia rotundifolia
3 to 8'
4'
Sun; well-drained soil; tolerates heat and humidity.
Photo: A sunflower (Helianthus) cultivar
Page 1: Daisies and "false sunflowers"
Page 2: Best growing conditions for sunflowers
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Black-seed Sunflower
We don't actually plant sunflowers, but every year a few appear in the garden mostly immediately under hanging birdfeeders in full sun, though birds also drop the seeds elsewhere in the gardens.
HELIANTHUS A Sunflower-like plant growing 1.5 to 2.5 m (2 to 8 ft) tall. In season during August and September. Excellent for the back of the border.
Asteraceae
(Sunflower Family)
Cirsium eatonii variety hesperium
Cirsium calcareum ...
Field Office Guide to Plant Species
Swamp Sunflower
Helianthus angustifolius L.
Most are not readily available, but two varieties offered occasionally by specialty New England nurseries are 'Sunflower' and 'Overleese'. These cultivars are notable for large, heavy fruits.
Helianthus Annuus
Sunflower
Annual
Habitat: Full sun; can tolerate most any type soil. Sow 1/4" to 1/8" deep. The size of the bloom is dictated by the amount of water and the richness of the soil.
Family:
False Sunflower
Family:
Asteraceae (also known as Compositae) ...
Mexican sunflower (Tithonia rotundifolia)
Mezereon (Daphne mezereum)
Mignonette (Reseda odorata)
Milkweed, butterfly weed (Asclepias species)
Miner's lettuce (Claytonia perfoliata, Montia perfoliata)
Miniature wax plant (Hoya bella) ...
An example is the sunflower seed in the shell (pericarp). Biseriate " Having two series, or rows, of parts; having two rows or sets of phyllaries (bracts) on the involucre. Claw " The narrowed base of the corolla of a ray flower.
In the American button-bush the heads are globular, in some species of teazel elliptical, while in scabious and in composite plants, as sunflower, dandelion, thistle, centaury and marigold, they are somewhat hemispherical, with a flattened, ...
gray horse-brush, spineless horse-brush Aster (Sunflower) Asteraceae Tetradymia canescens DC
This spring blooming, yellow-flowered, gray tomentose, up to 3 foot tall shrub grows in dry, open places in the foothills.
delphinium, perennial sunflower and Rudbeckia laciniata can be supported with canes or rods and twine ...
DESCRIPTION: Spotted knapweed is a biennial or short-lived perennial member of the Sunflower (Asteraceae) family. Its name is derived from the spots formed by black margins on the flower bract tips.
Tithonia rotundifolia, Asteraceae, Mexican Sunflower
Leaves alternate, occasionally opposite on the lower stem, on some varieties leaves may reach one foot in length, cordate (heart-shaped) base, margins are serrate and may be lobed.
It's a member of the sunflower family and its flowers resembles the sunflower, only in miniature form.
Coreopsis is a member of the sunflower family that looks like a daisy. Sometimes called "Tickseed" or "Calliopsis", this attractive plant has yellow, gold, red, maroon, or a combination of these colors , ...
Nombres relacionados: Alnecnica rocna (eslovaco), Arkakantha (sánscrito), Asteraceae (familia), Chao-jih-k'uei (chino), Chrysanthemum peruvianum (sinónimo), Common sunflower (inglés), Ekhilili (vasco), Flor del sol (castellano), Girasol (castellano), ...
The same effect is seen on a pine cone, on magnolia fruit, and in a sunflower. Mathematically inclined readers might like to speculate on how this widespread phenomenon arises.
Fruit oil is prepared from 150g of fresh fruits, over which 150ml of sunflower oil. The pot is kept at room temperature for 3 weeks stirred from time to time. After that, the seeds get crushed and placed in oil once again.
A composite flower (like the sunflower) has a many individual flowers (called florets) on a wide, flat receptacle, that look like a single flower.
Often dubbed the swamp sunflower, it is equally happy in swamps or in a typical garden environment. Helianthus angustifolia gets quite large, often to 8 feet by the time it produces its large clusters of yellow flowers in late summer and early fall.
Family Asteraceae, the Sunflowers
Genus Anaphalis, the Pearly Everlastings
Taxonomic Serial Number: 36529
Also known as Anaphalis occidentalis, Gnaphalium margaritaceum ...
To make the macerated oil, pour half a litre of sunflower or almond oil onto 120g of flowers in a glass jar, then place in direct sunlight for about six weeks or longer until the liquid has turned bright red.
Tithonia fruticosa
Mexican sunflower
Asteraceae Family
Compiled by the Master Gardeners
of the University of Arizona Pima County Cooperative Extension.
 See also: Aster, May, Green, Daisy, Pink
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