Small, crunchy, and surprisingly powerful, sunflower seeds are emerging as a go-to snack for Americans who want better ...

A decapitated field in Colorado is keeping a secret and holding hope of a new crop. Headless sunflower plants trade beauty for brawn, pumping growth energy toward leaves instead of seed. Inside the ...

If we handed you a box of crayons and asked you to draw a sunflower, you might begin by choosing the most vivid yellow color for the petals. After all, most people are familiar with sunny, bright ...

Recently, I’ve been smitten with sunflower seeds. Admittedly, it’s not an ingredient I normally think much of. Sunflower seeds tend to remind me of really bad salad bars from the ’80s. Or they did ...

A bouquet of cut sunflowers can easily brighten up a room. However, most sunflower bouquets will only last a short time in a vase before they begin to wilt. That is, unless you know how to correctly ...

They got it wrong! The sunflower, not the rose, should be our national flower. Now, I like roses, especially our native wild roses like the Carolina rose and the swamp rose. And I like old fashioned ...