A tiny, woolly flower found hiding in Texas’s Big Bend National Park shows the intriguing strangeness of sunflowers ...

To check the seeds, remove any disk flowers that sit on top of the sunflower seeds. According to Henry, disk flowers look like mini flower heads and house both male and female reproductive parts ...

It's in the sunflower family, yet looks nothing like your classic yellow-and-black petaled disk. An article published in the peer-reviewed botanical journal PhytoKeys this February first described ...