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A new plant species from the sunflower family, named the "woolly devil," has been discovered in Big Bend National Park, USA.
There’s a new sunflower in town. But it isn’t your stereotypical sunflower with cheery yellow petals. The so-called “woolly devil” is tiny, pale and well camouflaged amid limestone-rich ...
If you can only plant one plant, plant a sunflower as you get so much value in one plant: beauty, habitat value, and…. math education! Sunflowers have two flower types, disc and ray flowers.
Oil accounts for 80 percent of the value of a sunflower crop. • Eighty-five percent of North American sunflower seed is grown in North and South Dakota and Minnesota. Source: Alternative Field ...
Get Instant Summarized Text (Gist) The highly endangered sunflower star has found refuge in Canadian fjords, where cooler waters may protect it from sea star wasting disease (SSWD). Surveys along ...
A new study finds that cold-water trenches off B.C.’s central coast could be a marine refuge for critically endangered sunflower sea stars ... more than 90 per cent of the starfish on the North ...