there are actually lots of different species – from dwarf sunflowers that grow to barely a foot tall, to plants that reach such a deep shade of red, they look black. Lucy Hutchings, better known ...

Farmers grow more than 50 million tons of sunflower seeds every year. The black ones end up in our bird feeders, as well as on our grocery store shelves as cooking oil. The striped ones mostly go ...

Common sunflowers, such as the one above, are closely related to black oil sunflowers and are easy to find and grow. Plant sunflowers for a simple way to add another food source to your yard for ...

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 ...