📚 Sunflowers

The tall gold heads: the field crop and the border annual, and the seed that does double duty.

Below are the 30 works carrying the subject sunflowers in the Open Library catalogue with the most editions in print. Author and first year are as the record states them; a missing year means the record does not carry one, not that the book is undated. Novels set in the subject are left out, because a list of historical fiction is not a list of history. Where one author dominates the reprint counts, no more than two of their titles appear.

Cover	Title	Author	First published	Editions
	From Seed to Sunflower	Gerald Legg	1997	10
	Seed to sunflower	Camilla De la Bédoyère	2009	9
	A sunflower's life	Nancy Dickmann	2010	8
	Sunflower's Life Cycle	Mary R. Dunn	2017	6
	Sunflowers	Gail Saunders-Smith	1997	5
	From Seed to Sunflower	Mari C. Schuh	2016	5
	The Life Of An Apple (Life Cycles)	Clare Hibbert	2004	4
	Sunflowerseed in the USSR	Judith G. Goldich	1979	3
	The U.S. sunflower industry	Ian McCormick	1992	3
	The Life Cycle of a Sunflower	Bonnie Phelps	2015	3
	Sunflower (Life Cycle of A...)	Angela Royston	1998	2
	Sunflower (Take-off!: Life Cycle Of...)	Angela Royston	2000	2
	Sunflowers	Joe Pappalardo	2008	2
	A sunflower's life cycle	Ruth Thomson	2010	2
	Sunflower's Life Cycle	Ruth Thomson	2010	2
	Sunflower's Life Cycle	Mary R. Dunn	2017	2
	Let's Look at Sunflowers	Katie Peters	2020	2
	Gertie's sun flower	Mabel [pseud.]	1881	1
	A new Helianthus from Florida	Charles Louis Pollard	1900	1
	The sunflower plant	Wiley, Harvey Washington	1901	1
	Growing and feeding sunflowers	Mac Hoke	1919	1
	Sunflowers for silage	C. L. Smith	1920	1
	Sunflowers, their culture and use	A. F. Vass	1921	1
	Sunflower production for silage	E. G. Schafer	1921	1
	Sunflowers under irrigation in Montana	I. J. Jensen	1923	1
	A new Helianthus from Kentucky	Frank Theodore McFarland	1924	1
	The sunflower as a silage crop	W. L. Gaines	1925	1
	Contributions to a monograph of the genus Helianthus	Elba Emanual Watson	1929	1
	Contributions to a monograph of the genus Helianthus	Folsom, Justus Watson	1929	1
	Seĭte podsolnechnik pod zimu	V. P. Shcherbakov	1931	1

List built from Open Library (CC0 metadata) · retrieved 03 Nov 2026 UTC · capped at 30 works per subject.

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