TO BE A SUNFLOWER

CHARACTERISTICS

• Sunflowers are vascular plants
• They have seeds
• It is a gymnosperm plant
• It is a flower
• They are tall

ONE MORE CHARACTERISTIC

• It has a thick stem

SUNFLOWER REPRODUCTION

• It uses pollination to reproduce
• The pollen attracts bees and other animals
• They pick up the pollen and carry it to other flowers
• The pollen sticks to the stigma and fertilizes an egg

ENVIRONMENT

• It lives in dry places
• Wide open spaces
• Meadows, plains, etc.

Adaptations

• Highly developed root and flower systems help with climate changes
• It can live in different types of soil
• It's "head" rotates toward the sun to get the full amount of sun it needs

FACTS

• Its stem can grow to 10 feet!
• It is the national flower of Ukraine and the state flower of Kansas
• The flower part is made up of many tiny flowers called florets
• Each floret has its own seed
• They can attract birds

MORE FACTS

• Vincent Van Gogh made a series of paintings called 'Sunflowers'
• Sunflowers can be proccessed into "Sunbutter", a peanut butter alternative
• Sunflower oil and sunflower seeds are also made from sunflowers
• Sunflowers can extract lead, arsenic, uranium, and more from soil
• They did this after the Chernobyl and Fukushima disasters

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