As we enjoy the final few weeks of summer here in the Vail Valley, let’s take the time to pay homage to what is unequivocally a primary image of the season — the sunflower. You can probably picture ...

Easy to grow and useful all year-round, sunflowers are crowd-pleasers. Summer’s bright blooms bring joy to gardeners and pollinators, and naturally dried seeds provide local wildlife with a food ...

If you planted your first sunflower seed in a paper Dixie cup in kindergarten and watched it grow, you're probably hooked on these easy-to-grow, showy flowers for the garden. Sunflowers are perfect ...

Multiple weed species in the field combine to cause yield losses and can be described using one of several empirical models. Field studies were conducted to compare observed corn yield loss caused by ...

Is any flower more synonymous with late summer and early fall than the common sunflower? Their giant, sunshiny blooms are enough to make anyone smile. Growing your own picture-perfect sunflowers just ...

Field experiments were conducted in 1997 and 1998 near Rossville in northeast Kansas to evaluate control of imazethapyr-resistant common sunflower with selected herbicides in corn and soybean. In ...

Perhaps one of the greatest achievements of New World, native peoples was their domestication, cultivation and improvement of many native plants they encountered when migrating through and settling ...

They got it wrong! The sunflower, not the rose, should be our national flower. Now, I like roses, especially our native wild roses like the Carolina rose and the swamp rose. And I like old fashioned ...

My destination was Colonnade Arch, a scenic, buttressed alcove on the rim of the Green River Canyon, west of Canyonlands National Park. I was driving on a 37-mile long dirt road to my campsite, when I ...