Specialty Cut Flower Production Guides for Florida: Sunflower
Vol. 2003 No. 16, Historical Fact Sheets
Vol. 2003 No. 16

Specialty Cut Flower Production Guides for Florida: Sunflower: ENH885/EP142, 2/2003

Historical Fact Sheets
https://doi.org/10.32473/edis-ep142-2003
Rick Schoellhorn
Everett Emino
Erin Alvarez
University of Florida
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Schoellhorn, Rick, Everett Emino, and Erin Alvarez. 2003. “Specialty Cut Flower Production Guides for Florida: Sunflower: ENH885 EP142, 2 2003”. EDIS 2003 (16). Gainesville, FL. https://doi.org/10.32473/edis-ep142-2003.
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Abstract

One of the four native American commercial crops of global importance, sunflowers are grown for oil seed, snack seed, birdseed, and garden flowers. In addition, they are now widely grown for cut flower production as a specialty cut flower. Sunflowers are drought tolerant, grow in full sun, and grow in a wide range of soil conditions as annuals and perennials. They are used in the landscape for borders, screening, or in containers. Many cultivars are available in colors that range from yellow to bronze, red, or cream. New cultivars have been introduced especially for bedding and cut flower use, as the familiar old cultivars and agronomic oil seed types
are not well suited for these purposes. With proper cultivar selection, the flowering season in Florida is long and limited only by freezing temperatures. This document is ENH885, one of a series of the Environmental Horticulture Department, Florida Cooperative Extension Service, Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences, University of Florida. Original publication date February 23, 2003.

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