Sunflowers can either be annuals or perennials, depending on the variety you choose to plant. Annual sunflowers complete their life cycle in one season, while perennial sunflowers reappear each year.

GONE WILD: Be sure to notice the bright gold daisy flowers of the narrow-leaf sunflower (Helianthus angustifolius) blooming so beautifully now along roads and interstate highways. Also in bloom are ...

The benefits of sunflowers are so abundant that no yard should be without them. I’m not referring to the large-headed annual cultivars you see growing in a field, but rather the native perennial ...

Journal of the Kansas Entomological Society, Vol. 53, No. 4 (Oct., 1980), pp. 727-730 (4 pages) Larvae of Zygogramma exclamationis (F.) had significantly (5% level) higher mortality when reared on 18 ...

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