Ravenstone Press
Stories of Kansas and the Great Plains
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The Kansas State Flower |
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| The State Flower of Kansas
is the wild native sunflower. So what do they really look like?
These are not the giant one-bloom-to-a-stalk garden variety. The photo
above shows one flower close up. Note that in comparison to the giant
hybrids, the center is smaller. In fact, the whole bloom is smaller
and the stalks are thinner, though they do grow just as tall.
Do they really bloom in a thicket so dense that a yellow cat could hide in them. Yes! The photos below were taken west of Manhattan, Kansas, along the road toward Keats, in September. It's where the line in Kansas Katie, "The September prairie glowed with the light of them," came from. Photos copyright Jerri Garretson. |
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Click on the picture above to see it a little larger. |
Click on the picture above to see it a little larger. |
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Is this what you thought sunflowers all loooked like? |
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| Sunflower Links Backyard Sunflowers as a Bird Habitat Pictures of Sunflowers & Desktop Wallpaper Pictures (Click "Sunflowers on the menu at left) Sunflower Information |
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Last Updated October 31, 2003