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

Sunflowers (Helianthus annuus) are known for being easy-to-grow annuals—and sometimes perennials—that add color and height to a warm-weather garden. They thrive even more when they're planted ...

What are ways species exchange genes with each other? Hybridization and gene flow are shortcuts to biodiversity that don’t always involve differentiation.

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 ...

Previously, we have written about the importance of sunflowers in a native garden. If you can only plant one plant, plant a sunflower as you get so much value in one plant: beauty, habitat value ...

Helianthos is the Greek word for sunflower and Costa is visiting a farm at the foot of the Blue Mountains in NSW that specialises in these sunny, bright plants. Marika and John Saliba have ...

In collaboration with our peers in EBIO, we are developing genomics-assisted breeding techniques that allow us to balance improvement in yield and nutritional aspects of the seed oil in sunflower ...

flowering heads of the sunflower plant (Helianthus annuus). These small, flat seeds are typically encased in a hard, black-and-white striped shell. The seeds can be consumed as a whole or with the ...

A 0.8ha farm located in Bagan Sungai Burung has more than 2,000 sunflowers (scientific name Helianthus annuus).