Sunflower
सूरजमुखीசூரியகாந்திప్రొద్దు తిరుగుడు
Helianthus annuus L.
- light
- Full sun
- water
- Medium
- tall
- 3.0 m
- wide
- 69 cm
Asteraceae
Also called Common Sunflower, Annual Sunflower, Mirasol, Ornamental Sunflower, Common sunflower
Formerly Helianthus aridus, Helianthus bangladeshinensis, Helianthus erythrocarpus, Helianthus grandiflorus, and 8 more
When it flowers
Flowers all year in the tropics.
Read from iNaturalist photographs of it in flower. A month counts at 50% of the best month's flowering share (smoothed over three months) and 10% of its flowering count, from at least 100 flowering observations in the band.
If a child, a pet or anyone may have eaten a plant, contact a doctor or vet straight away, or call the National Poisons Information Centre (AIIMS, New Delhi) on 1800 116 117, free and open 24 hours.
Something wrong with it?About it
- Grows as
- AnnualKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Climate
- TemperateKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Wild in
- SW. U.S.A. to MexicoKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Light
- Full sun (6 h or more)Read from NC State Extension and Wikipedia, checked by a majority of its sourcesBacked by both sources
- Height
- 3.0 mRead from NC State Extension and Wikipedia, checked by a majority of its sourcesBacked by both sources. Sources differ: NC State Extension 1.5–10 ft; Wikipedia 3–3 m
- Spread
- 46 cm to 91 cmRead from NC State Extension, one source
- Water
- Average: moist, well drainedRead from NC State Extension and Wikipedia, checked by a majority of its sourcesBacked by both sources
- Flowers
- Yellow, orange, redRead from NC State Extension and Wikipedia, checked by a majority of its sourcesBacked by both sources. Sources differ: NC State Extension brown, orange, purple, red, white, yellow; Wikipedia orange, red, yellow
Not known yet: coldest it survives, heat, hottest it survives.
In other languages (12)
- root
- Acahualli, chimálatl, xaricámata
- French
- Tournesol
- Spanish
- Girasol, mirasol, Acahual
- Italian
- Girasole
- Portuguese
- Girassol
- German
- Sonnenblume
- Chinese
- 向日葵, 向日葵丈菊, 向日葵叶
- Czech
- slunečnice roční
- Estonian
- harilik päevalill, päevalill
- Danish
- Almindelig solsikke
- Hungarian
- Napraforgó, közönséges napraforgó
- Indonesian
- Bunga Matahari
Where this comes from
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-24, CC0-1.0 (observation counts)
- Wikidata, read 2026-10-26, CC0-1.0
- Kew's checklist, read 2026-10-24, CC-BY-4.0
- NC State Extension, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- Wikipedia, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- Wikimedia Commons, read 2026-10-24, Public domain
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY
- 3D model: Helianthus annuus (built for Vanagrha) by Vanagrha, own
A fact “checked by a majority of its sources” was settled by a vote of the pages it was read from, not by a person reading it; one marked “one source” rests on that page alone. Anything else not marked checked has not been checked yet. Where nothing is known, the page says so rather than guess.