By Amy-Lynn Albertson N.C. Cooperative Extension The Rowan County Extension Master Gardener Plant Sale is happening next ...

Sunflowers (Helianthus) are members of the daisy family, with both perennial and annual species from the Americas ... as work-a-day oilseed plants whose seeds are 40 per cent oil. Insects for pollen ...

Sunflowers can also be considered a “trap crop," meaning they may lure unwanted insects away from your vegetable crops.

Within those varieties, perennials are a great choice for ... Although they share their coloring with sunflowers, these plants are much smaller and usually grow between 1 and 3 feet tall.

The known insect pests of sunflowers don’t often hit economic thresholds in those crops, but certain diseases can do ...

Similar work is beginning in the native prairie plants of the Silphium genus, which we are domesticating de novo to provide a sunflower like plant suitable for perennial permaculture in the future.