A friend asked me recently if I had planted all the sunflowers in my yard. The answer is no. They are all volunteers that probably started with birds dropping seeds. For years I have let them grow ...

Perhaps one of the greatest achievements of New World, native peoples was their domestication, cultivation and improvement of many native plants they encountered when migrating through and settling ...

Spain’s Film Factory has acquired international rights on Jaime Rosales’ latest feature “Wild Sunflowers,” a co-production between the director’s own Fresdeval Films, A Contracorriente Films (“The ...

FARGO, N.D. -- Scientists at the Agricultural Research Service's Sunflower Research Unit in Fargo, N.D., are working to identify genetic traits of wild sunflowers collected in Australia last year that ...

We have been blessed by cool weather and rain, rain, rain and now sunshine! The wildflowers are thrilled with these conditions. One of our early amazing sunflowers blooming prolifically this time of ...

Sunflowers at Chimney Rock National Historic Site in western Nebraska. Nebraska’s prairies and parks are known for their vibrant wildflowers like prairie clover, goldenrods, and asters—but sunflowers ...

The wild plants that grow along our roadsides and ditches—like the salt-tolerant wild sunflowers and disease-resistant wild pumpkins—may hold crucial traits that can protect our food supply. Breeding ...