I recently gave a talk on native plants and pollinators and got some terrific questions. Among them was a query about pollenless sunflowers from a woman who had noticed that many sunflower seed ...

Years ago, I noticed maximilian sunflower (Helianthus maximiliani) in a local demonstration garden. It was late in the growing season, yet this plant was providing lots of color and interesting ...

Previously, we have written about the importance of sunflowers in a native garden. If you can only plant one plant, plant a sunflower as you get so much value in one plant: beauty, habitat value, and… ...

When you hear the word sunflowers, the cheerful, familiar, large yellow blooms of the annual sunflowers come to mind (Helianthus annuus). These vibrant, happy flowers are annuals and are derived from ...

There’s a golden-flowered plant that’s starting to bloom in native gardens all over Santa Fe this month. It has a princely name that lives for the sun. Each year, this majestic beauty shoots up ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract The internal transcribed spacer (ITS) region of the nuclear ribosomal DNA was sequenced from 73 samples representing 46 of the 49 species of ...