Loved for their bold and cheery presence, sunflowers are one of the most widely recognised garden blooms. Instantly recognisable for their tall straight stems topped with circular flowerheads and ...

In early August 2024, a viral TikTok made the bold claim that "something just isn't right with the sun anymore." The post's evidence? A patch of sunflowers, known for turning their flowers throughout ...

Sunflowers famously turn their faces to follow the sun as it crosses the sky. But how do sunflowers 'see' the sun to follow it? Plant biologists show that they use a different, novel mechanism from ...

If you’ve walked past the sunflower beds on CU Boulder’s Main Campus lately, you might’ve done a double take—some of the blooms aren’t just yellow. They’re red. Really red. That’s thanks to a ...

GRANBY, Mass. (WWLP) – Walking the spiral path of beautiful sunflowers to wind down summer. Open daily, the Red Fire Farms in Granby offers a beautiful sunflower path through their farm. Local farms ...

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? And then: Once sunflowers reach ...

WASHINGTON — Young sunflowers follow the sun, their still-green buds arcing from east to west across the summer sky as dawn turns to noon turns to dusk. Each night they reverse their dance, swinging ...

A sunflower’s ability to track the sun east to west during the day, and to face east again before the next sunrise, relies on multiple types of photoresponses, according to a new study publishing ...

When the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Farm Service Agency released its first round of data on certified crop acres for the 2025 growing season on Aug. 1, the numbers held a surprise for sunflowers ...

FARGO, N.D.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Red River Commodities introduces a new SunButter® product to their current line of peanut-free, tree-nut free, gluten-free sunflower butter spreads. SunButter Natural ...

Sunflowers famously turn their faces to follow the sun as it crosses the sky. But how do sunflowers “see” the sun to follow it? New work from plant biologists at UC Davis, published Oct. 31 in PLOS ...