A tiny, woolly flower found hiding in Texas’s Big Bend National Park shows the intriguing strangeness of sunflowers ...

It locates patches of host plants along roadsides, field margins, and disturbed rangeland. Patches of common sunflower, Helianthus annuus, are especially attractive to this grasshopper. In its favored ...

More than 70 cultivars of Helianthus exist, with the common sunflower species being Helianthus annuus — Helianthus meaning helios (or sun) and anthus (flower), according to Wasser. "Within all ...

Helianthus annuus L., also known as the common sunflower, blooms between the months of July and October each year, according to the U.S. Forest Service (USFS). The exact time sunflowers reach peak ...