Maximilian Sunflower

Member of Sunflower Family

Blooms: June - October

This plant grows in clay soils which are very fertile. It can be found in prairies and ditches.

Maximilian Sunflowers are often grazed by livestock, which has removed much of it from it's native areas. It is very tasty to deer and numerous species of birds, which eat it's seeds. The tubers were an important food source for Western tribes of Indians. The plant was named for Prince Maximilian, a naturalist who traveled in the American West during the 1830s.

"Thou waterest the ridges thereof abundantly: thou settlest the furrows thererof: thou makest it soft with showers: thou blessest the springing thereof."

Psalm 65:10