Here Comes The Sun
- Aug 9, 2016
- 1 min read
It's an elaborate dance of hormones, sunshine, genes and bees
"It may not surprise you that sunflowers have something of a thing for the sun. OK, that’s true of all plants, which is why they orient their flowers and leaves to follow the sun as it moves across the sky. But it’s sunflowers that are the most obvious about it, craning their big yellow heads atop their long green stalks toward the east in the morning and due west by sundown. Even at night they’re hankering for the light, turning their faces back east in the dark so they’ll be ready to catch the first rays the moment dawn breaks."
Click on the Sun Flowers before they move to learn more.


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