Sunflowers are giant, happy flowers that can grow taller than a grown-up, and some can reach over 12 feet high! They have huge bright yellow petals and a big brown center that is actually made up of hundreds of tiny little flowers all packed together. Sunflowers originally come from North America.
Each of those tiny flowers in the center can turn into a seed, so one single sunflower head can hold over 1,000 seeds! Sunflowers have huge bright yellow petals that look like the rays of the sun. They can grow very tall on thick, sturdy stems with big green leaves.
Native Americans were some of the first people to grow sunflowers for food thousands of years ago. Sunflowers love sunny spots and grow in gardens and farms all around the world. When the seeds are ready, both birds and people love to eat them as a tasty snack.
Young sunflowers are very smart because they turn their flower heads to follow the sun across the sky all day long!
At night, they turn back to face east again, ready for the sunrise.
Once sunflowers are all grown up, they stop moving and face east all the time.
Sunflower seeds can be pressed to make cooking oil that many families use in their kitchens every day!
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