Uncover cool facts about sunflowers, including sunflower plant world records and which U.S. states grow the most sunflowers.

K-State's Cynthia Domenghini explains how to identify harvest-ready sunflower seeds, the gathering process and cooking ...

Sunflowers (Helianthus annuus) are a beautiful addition to any garden and are relatively easy to grow on the North Olympic ...

THEY WILL END UP DROPPING SOME OF THOSE SEEDS ON THE GROUND. AND THEN SOME SOME NEW SUNFLOWERS WILL GROW NEXT YEAR. SO YEAH. SO NEXT YEAR YOU COULD EVEN END UP WITH MORE SUNFLOWERS THAN YOU ...

who loved to grow sunflowers in our front yard in southwest Florida,” he says. When Cox found his own passion for gardening, one of his first plantings was a sunflower seed in a tiny ...

Recall that each ovary of each flower will ripen into a fruit, and with the members of this family, the fruit is always a hard, one-seeded nutlet — a good example would be a sunflower seed ...

Dancing in the sunlight: Yasmine Meroz inspects a sunflower plant. (Courtesy: Tel Aviv University) Sunflowers in a field can co-ordinate the circular motions of their growing stems to minimize the ...

Previous studies have shown that sunflowers planted in high-density fields grow in a zigzag pattern to avoid casting shadows on each other. This growth pattern allows them to maximize sunlight ...

Sunflowers really do "dance" as they grow so as not to block solar rays from each other, reveals new research. The study sheds light on a scientific puzzle that has occupied researchers since the ...