Yet another experiment showed that this is almost certainly because east-facing sunflowers are more effectively warmed by the morning sun than sunflowers that are facing west.

This sun-tracking behavior , known as heliotropism , is most evident in young sunflower buds and usually diminishes as the flower matures, with mature sunflowers generally facing east ...

Plant a field of sunflowers, and watch them grow. All summer you will see something amazing. In the morning, all the sunflowers will face east, the direction of the rising sun. As the sun moves ...

This is why a field of dwarf oil sunflowers will all open up facing the same direction. Once a mature sunflower loses its petals, the central "disk" turns yellow. Once seeds mature they are still ...

Why Sunflowers in These Videos Don't Face the Sun The turning behavior is called heliotropism, and scientists have known about it for quite a while.

And in another series of experiments, the group found that sunflowers facing east at dawn got many more bee visitors in the morning than those facing west (there was no difference in visitors ...

Why face the sun? Why do mature sunflowers face east, anyway? The researchers grew sunflowers in pots in the field, and rotated some of them to the west. By measuring the flowers with an infrared ...

Scientists have answered a burning question central to the charm of sunflowers: Why do young flowers move their blooms to always face the sun over the course of a day?

Sunflowers start the day facing the sun in the east. Over the course of daylight, they turn to face the sun. At night, they turn back to the east, starting anew.

At 2-3 inches in diameter, the Old Man flower is very large for an Alpine tundra plant. Like other sunflowers, you will see them all facing the same direction — toward the sun.