How many varieties of sunflowers are there?

There are over 70 cultivars of sunflowers, which make up the entire genus. These varieties can be divided into three groups for ease: giant sunflowers, dwarf sunflowers, and colored sunflowers.

What is the rarest sunflower?

Helianthus schweinitzii
Helianthus schweinitzii is a perennial wildflower endemic to the Piedmont physiographic province of North Carolina and South Carolina. Its common name is Schweinitz’s sunflower. It is a member of the sunflower family (Asteraceae). It is one of the rarest species of sunflower in the United States.

What are the different colors of sunflowers?

Sunflowers, which are easy to plant from seed directly in the garden, remain beautiful all season with little maintenance. Traditionally, sunflowers are bright yellow with brown centers, but varieties include shades of bright yellow, copper, red, brown, orange and bi-colored.

What types of sunflowers are there?

There are many types of sunflowers. Most agricultural varieties are hybrids that have been bred for seed size or oil content. The five kinds of sunflowers that are native to Colorado include both perennial and annual varieties and consist of the common sunflower, Maximilian sunflower, Nuttall’s sunflower, prairie sunflower, and bush sunflower.

Are there purple sunflowers?

Sunflowers ( Helianthus spp.) contain both annuals and perennials, which are native to North and South America. Most sunflowers grow strong stems with showy, daisy-shaped flowers in different colors including yellow, orange, red, cream, purple and bronze.

Are blue sunflowers real?

There are no natural blue sunflowers, but if you cut them and put them in a vase of water with some blue food colour in the flowers will drink the dyed water and turn blue. they’d end up looking green blue veins against yellow pigments.