Sunflower Facts | Facts about Sunflowers

How many sunflower paintings did Van Gogh make?

Vincent van Gogh painted a series of still lifes of sunflowers.

Some sea stars, like the sunflower sea star, can have more than 20 arms.

Young sunflowers track the sun across the sky, but mature sunflowers stop moving and face east.

A sunflower head is actually made of hundreds or even thousands of tiny individual flowers.

Sunflower seeds are arranged in spirals that follow the Fibonacci sequence.

The tallest sunflower on record was just over 30 feet tall.

The sunflower is the state flower of Kansas.

Sunflowers are native to North America and were domesticated by Native Americans.

Sunflowers have been planted at nuclear disaster sites to help pull radioactive materials out of the soil.

The sunflower is a national symbol of Ukraine.

Sunflower oil became popular in Russia partly because it wasn't on the Russian Orthodox Church's list of foods banned during Lent.

Sunflower seeds are rich in vitamin E.