A tiny, woolly flower found hiding in Texas’s Big Bend National Park shows the intriguing strangeness of sunflowers ...

Headless sunflower plants trade beauty for brawn, pumping growth energy toward leaves instead of seed. Inside the green biomass hides the muscle of industry and empire: natural rubber. Could ...

However, you don't need to spray the delicious fruit with chemical pesticides to exterminate the leaf-footed invaders. Instead, you can plant sunflowers, specifically peredovik varieties ...