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Question about silver leaf sunflower

11 years ago

I visited Leu Gardens here in Orlando, FL. This sunflower was in their butterfly garden. I have searched the net, but info is very vague. I thought I would check in this forum as the Texas native silver leaf sunflower is the only thing I could find any info on. Is this a cross between a giant sunflower and the Texas native silver leaf sunflower, or does the native one look like this? I was trying to find a source for seeds and all I'm finding are crosses with the silver leaf.

This one's blurry....sorry about that

Thanks for any help you can give.

Martina

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wantonamara Z8 CenTex
11 years ago
Helianthus argophyllus.I have seed for it. Or I think I do. Or I will in october since they are all coming up from the ground. It is a beautiful plant as much for the follage as for the plant. It is really lucious younger and then it lengthens out as it goes into flower mode. It gets tall!

Here is a link that might be useful: Silverleafed sunflower
Martina DeLuca
Original Author
11 years ago
Thanks so much for responding and for your gorgeous pics. There were either no good pics online of the full plant, or they were bad pics. If you think about it at the end of summer, I would buy seeds from you. For now, I am going to try the mammoth cross to see what I get.

Thanks again.
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