Taxon: Helianthus annuus L.
Genus: Helianthus
Family: Asteraceae (alt. Compositae).
Nomen number: 27923
Place of publication: Sp. pl. 2:904. 1753
Typification: View record from Linnaean Plant Name Typification Project
of the Natural History Museum of London.
Name verified on: 23-Jun-1999 by ARS Systematic Botanists. Last updated: 12-Oct-1999
Species priority site is: North Central Regional PI Station (NC7). Accessions:
3571 in National Plant Germplasm System.
SPECIES RESTRICTED BECAUSE STATE NOXIOUS WEED
- A declared aquatic or terrestrial noxious
weed and/or noxious-weed seed in these U.S. states (see state noxious weed lists), with links
to state information or web documents:
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IA(wild strains)*°.
| ªAquatic.
| *Terrestrial.
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- Link to noxious weed information from

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Native: (links to
other web resources are provided for some distributions)
- NORTHERN AMERICA
(Check conservation status in U.S. & Canada in NatureServe Explorer database)
Western Canada: Canada - Alberta [s.], British Columbia [s.], Manitoba [s.], Saskatchewan [s.] North-Central U.S.A.: United States - Kansas, Minnesota, Nebraska, North Dakota, Oklahoma, South Dakota Northwestern U.S.A.: United States - Colorado, Idaho, Montana, Oregon, Washington, Wyoming Southeastern U.S.A.: United States - Arkansas, Kentucky, Louisiana South-Central U.S.A.: United States - New Mexico, Texas Southwestern U.S.A.: United States - Arizona, California, Nevada, Utah Northern Mexico: Mexico - Baja Norte, Chihuahua, Coahuila, Durango, Nuevo Leon, Sonora, Tamaulipas
Naturalized:
Cultivated:
Other: - probably not native in e. United States
- PROTABASE, the information base of PROTA (Plant Resources of Tropical Africa) - on-line resource. (PROTABASE)
- Burkart, A. E., ed.
1969–. Flora ilustrada de Entre Rios. (F EntreR)
- Cronquist, A. et al.
1972–. Intermountain flora. (Intermt F)
- Duke, J. A. et al.
2002. CRC Handbook of medicinal herbs. (CRC MedHerbs ed2)
- Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN (FAO).
2010. Ecocrop - on-line resource. (Ecocrop)
- Gleason, H. A. & A. Cronquist.
1991. Manual of vascular plants of northeastern United States and adjacent Canada, ed. 2. (Glea Cron ed2)
- Heiser, C. B., Jr. et al.
1969. The North American sunflowers (Helianthus).
Mem. Torrey Bot. Club
22(3):61–68.
- Hickman, J. C., ed.
1993. The Jepson manual: Higher plants of California. (F CalifJep)
- Kartesz, J. T.
1994. A synonymized checklist of the vascular flora of the United States, Canada, and Greenland. (L US Can ed2)
- Magee, D. W. & H. E. Ahles.
1999. Flora of the Northeast. A manual of the vascular flora of New England and adjacent New York. (F NE US)
- Malezasdemexico.
Malezas de México - on-line resource. (Malezas Mex)
- Markle, G. M. et al., eds.
1998. Food and feed crops of the United States, ed. 2. (Food Feed Crops US)
- McGuffin, M., J. T. Kartesz, A. Y. Leung, & A. O. Tucker.
2000. Herbs of commerce, ed. 2. (Herbs Commerce ed2)
- Munro, D. B.
Canadian poisonous plants information system - on-line resource. (Can Poison Pl)
- Ohio Flora Committee (E. L. Braun, T. S. Cooperrider, T. R. Fisher, J. J. Furlow).
1967–. The vascular flora of Ohio. (F Ohio)
- Ortega-Sada, J. L.
1987. Flora de interes apicola y polinizacion de cultivos. (F Int Apico)
- Porcher, M. H. et al.
Searchable World Wide Web Multilingual Multiscript Plant Name Database (MMPND) - on-line resource. (Pl Names)
- Radford, A. E. et al., eds.
1980–. Vascular flora of the southeastern United States. (F SE US)
- Rehm, S. & G. Espig.
1991. The cultivated plants of the tropics and subtropics. (CultTropS)
- Rehm, S.
1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants. (Dict Rehm)
- Rogers, C. E. et al.
1982. Sunflower species of the United States.
4–5.
- Rosengarten, F.
1984. The book of edible nuts. (Edible Nuts)
- Scoggan, H. J.
1978–1979. The flora of Canada, 4 vol. (F Canada)
- Seed Regulatory and Testing Branch, Agricultural Marketing Service, U.S.D.A.
1999. State noxious-weed seed requirements recognized in the administration of the Federal Seed Act. (State Noxweed Seed)
- Voss, E.
1972–. Michigan flora. (F Mich)
- Welsh, S. L. et al.
1993. A Utah flora. (F Utah ed2)
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Synonyms:
Check other databases for Helianthus annuus L.:
- PLANTS: USDA-NRCS Database of Plants of
the United States and its Territories
- TROPICOS: Nomenclatural and Specimen Database of the Missouri Botanical Garden
- Mansfeld: Mansfeld's World Database of Agricultural and Horticultural Crops
- PROTABASE: Plant Resources of
Tropical Africa's (PROTA's) online resource
- ePIC: Electronic Plant Information Centre of Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
- AGRICOLA: Article Citation Database or NAL Catalog of USDA's National Agricultural Library
- Entrez: NCBI's search engine for PubMed
citations, GenBank sequences, etc.
Note: Defaults to a search by genus
or species epithet if species binomial not found.
Images:
- More:
- Check PlantSystematics.org for additional images
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Images Note: Be advised that their identity may be
inaccurate. Proper identification of a plant may require
specialized taxonomic knowledge or comparison with
properly documented herbarium material.
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Cite as: USDA, ARS, National Genetic Resources Program.
Germplasm Resources Information Network - (GRIN) [Online Database]. National Germplasm Resources Laboratory, Beltsville,
Maryland.
URL: http://www.ars-grin.gov/cgi-bin/npgs/html/taxon.pl?27923 (09 February 2010)
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