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Sunflower Plant Overview and Care Guide

The sunflower is an annual plant in the Asteraceae family that can grow up to 3 meters tall with large flower heads up to 30 cm wide. The flower head is made up of many tiny flowers called florets that together form a false flower to be easily seen by pollinators to produce thousands of seeds. Sunflowers need full sun and grow best in fertile, wet, well-drained soil that is mulched, with commercial seeds planted 45 cm apart and 2.5 cm deep.

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Sunflower Plant Overview and Care Guide

The sunflower is an annual plant in the Asteraceae family that can grow up to 3 meters tall with large flower heads up to 30 cm wide. The flower head is made up of many tiny flowers called florets that together form a false flower to be easily seen by pollinators to produce thousands of seeds. Sunflowers need full sun and grow best in fertile, wet, well-drained soil that is mulched, with commercial seeds planted 45 cm apart and 2.5 cm deep.

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THE SUNFLOWER

The sunflowers are annual plant in the family Asteraceae. They have large flower heads
(capitulum). The stem can grow up to 3 meters tall, with a flower head that can be 30 cm
wide. Other types of sunflowers include the California Royal Sunflower, which has a
burgundy (red + purple) flower head.

The flower head is actually made of hundreds or thousands of tiny flowers called florets. The
central florets look like the center of a normal flower, and the outer florets look like yellow
petals. All together they make up a "false flower" or pseudanthium. The benefit to the plant is
that it is very easily seen by the insects and birds which pollinate it, and it produces thousands
of seeds.
The sunflower is the state flower of Kansas. That is why Kansas is sometimes called the
Sunflower State. To grow well, sunflowers need full sun. They grow best in fertile, wet, well-
drained soil with a lot of mulch. In commercial planting, seeds are planted 45 cm (1.5 ft)
apart and 2.5 cm (1 in) deep.

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