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Plant these as a winter sowing or cold stratify them for spring planting. Swamp sunflower (H. angustifolius) . As its name suggests, swamp sunflower tolerates wetter sites than other sunflowers.
Transplanting your indoor houseplants is easier than you think. Here's how to repot a plant in five steps, including all the tools you need. The whole process will take around 10 minutes.
If water runs straight through your plant’s pot or the potting soil cracks and shrinks away from the pot’s sides, it may be time to repot your plant into fresh soil. Related: The 7 Best ...
Globally, sunflowers are the fourth most important oil crop. Most of the sunflower seed crop is crushed for oil, and most of the oil is consumed by humans. A major byproduct of crushing is protein-rich cake, an excellent feed for livestock. A tiny proportion of the global sunflower crop is directly eaten as “nuts” or kernels.
Tithonia diversifolia is a species of flowering plant in the family Asteraceae that is commonly known as the tree marigold, [2] Mexican tournesol, Mexican sunflower, Japanese sunflower or Nitobe chrysanthemum. It is native to Mexico and Central America but has a nearly pantropical distribution as an introduced species. [1]
Heliotropism, a form of tropism, is the diurnal or seasonal motion of plant parts (flowers or leaves) in response to the direction of the Sun. The habit of some plants to move in the direction of the Sun, a form of tropism, was already known by the Ancient Greeks. They named one of those plants after that property Heliotropium, meaning "sun turn".
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Helianthus divaricatus, commonly known as the rough sunflower, [3] woodland sunflower, [4] or rough woodland sunflower, [5] is a North American species perennial herb in the family Asteraceae. It is native to central and eastern North America , from Ontario and Quebec in the north, south to Florida and Louisiana and west to Oklahoma and Iowa .