Sunflowers are striking fall flowers

October 21, 2011

One of the most familiar and striking autumn flowers is the sunflower, but many may not know that it comes in a number of varieties.

A resident of Alabama wrote in to The Birmingham News that she has seen a striking yellow flower growing but did not know what it was. Harvey Cotten of the Huntsville Botanical Garden reported that it was a swamp sunflower, a type of fall-blooming perennial. Also commonly called a narrow-leaf sunflower, it is a hardy bloom that continues to shine even when the other flowering plants of the season have died out.

Blooming right until a hard frost "stops it in its tracks," Cotten reports that the golden flowers cover the shrubs, which can grow up to 6 feet tall. They are related to aster flowers and close cousins to the traditional sunflower.

While they look gorgeous in an outdoor garden, they also look great inside in a sunflower bouquet or an arrangement of fall flowers. Pair the bloom with aster flowers or chrysanthemums, or send sunflowers online to someone who can't grow them.

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