Sunflowers can either be annuals or perennials, depending on the variety you choose to plant. Annual sunflowers complete their life cycle in one season, while perennial sunflowers reappear each year.

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, and… ...

It takes a bold blossom to compete with the beloved bluebonnet in Texas. Maybe that's why some wildflowers wait until fall to take their bows or deliver an encore in autumn. They might be late ...

When you hear the word sunflowers, the cheerful, familiar, large yellow blooms of the annual sunflowers come to mind (Helianthus annuus). These vibrant, happy flowers are annuals and are derived from ...

Years ago, I noticed maximilian sunflower (Helianthus maximiliani) in a local demonstration garden. It was late in the growing season, yet this plant was providing lots of color and interesting ...

Two weeks ago in this column, we introduced a few of the most common ornamental plants in the Asteraceae family. Plants in this family are also called composites (Compositae) because they have ...

There’s a golden-flowered plant that’s starting to bloom in native gardens all over Santa Fe this month. It has a princely name that lives for the sun. Each year, this majestic beauty shoots up ...

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Miscellaneous Trees, Shrubs and Plants: Helianthus maximiliani, commonly called Maximilian sunflower. Smithsonian Gardens Topic Photographer Sears, Thomas Warren, 1880-1966 See more items in Thomas ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract The internal transcribed spacer (ITS) region of the nuclear ribosomal DNA was sequenced from 73 samples representing 46 of the 49 species of ...