Disciform heads superficially resemble discoid heads with pistillate or sterile flowers that lack rays together with or separate from disk flowers. Stems and husks are rich in potash. Daisy Family Compositae subfamily Asteroideae formerly Aster Family Asteraceae Growing form.
helianthus annuus flower description.
Helianthus annuus is native to dry plains prairies meadows and foothills in the western US Canada and northern Mexico.
130 protein 19 fat 703 total carbohydrate 204 g fiber 148 g.
They are annuals or perennials and have rough sandpapery leaves and showy daisy-like flowers that come in a variety of colors.
Description Helianthus annuus is commonly seen growing along roads fences fields and in waste areas west of the Mississippi River and is the state flower of Kansas.
In summer it produces huge brilliant flowers up to 12 in.
Large types grow to 12 feet tall but many garden cultivars are 4 to 5 feet tall.
Nutritionally the seeds contain up to 46 of polyunsaturated oil with a high percentage of linoleic acid and up to 20 protein of a high biological value.
Wild sunflower seeds were an important source of food for Indians living in prehistoric times.
Sunflower Helianthus annuus is an annual plant in the Asteraceae Sunflower family that is native to the Americas and widespread in California.
The stem of the flower can grow up to 3 metres tall with a flower head that can be 30 cm wide.
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Native to North America Helianthus annuus better known as sunflower is both beautiful and useful.
The attractive heads of flowers are 7515 cm wide in wild specimens and often 30 cm or more in cultivated types.
Incredibly eye-catching award-winner Helianthus annuus Soraya Common Sunflower is a vigorous well-branched annual with oblong to lanceolate leaves and particularly beautiful flowers.
Annuus is an annual herb with a rough hairy stem 145 metres 315 feet high and broad coarsely toothed rough leaves 7530 cm 312 inches long arranged in spirals.
Nov 27 2016 Sunflower Helianthus annuus Information Medicinal Uses Sunflower is an edible medicinal plant.
Across 15 cm with bright golden-orange petals surrounding chocolate brown centers.
This plant can be weedy or invasive according to the authoritative sources noted belowThis plant may be known by one or more common.
May 19 2013 Carbonized seeds of domesticated sunflower Helianthus annuus var.
Another analysis shows young shoots contain.
Tuberosus the roots of which form Jerusalem Artichokes.
Other types of sunflowers include the California Royal Sunflower which has a burgundy red purple flower head.
Steamed buds have an artichoke flavor.
Across 30 cm with yellow petals surrounding a dark chocolate central disk.
Helianthus annuus Common Sunflower is a tall fast-growing annual with broad oval to heart-shaped roughly hairy leaves.
Helianthus annuus the common annual sunflower is widespread in the USA and especially abundant west of the Mississippi River.
It possesses a large flower cluster flowering head.
Macrocarpus Ckll recovered from the Hayes site in middle Tennessee yielded an accelerator date of 4265 - 60 BP.
Annuus the giant sunflower from which we get seed and oil and H.
A ligulate flower is bisexual with a bilateral generally ephemeral corolla and 5-lobed ligule.
Hybridization has produced many cultivars expanding the range of flowers from the common yellow to red mahogany bronze white and bi-colors.