Sunflowers may be rooted to the ground, but that doesn’t mean they can’t dance. Each day, young sunflowers trace the path of the sun across the sky, turning their faces 180 degrees from east to west.

Sunflowers famously turn their faces to follow the sun as it crosses the sky. But how do sunflowers "see" the sun to follow it? New work from plant biologists at the University of California, Davis, ...

The way a young sunflower turns its bright yellow head to follow the movements of the Sun across the sky each day can be quite dramatic, in terms of plant activity. Now scientists have been surprised ...

Sunflowers have a circadian rhythm, which tells the cells in the eastern side of the stem to grow slightly longer, causing the blossom to lean westward, researchers say. At night, the message reverses ...

Sunflowers famously turn their faces to follow the sun as it crosses the sky. But how do sunflowers 'see' the sun to follow it? Plant biologists show that they use a different, novel mechanism from ...

Sunflowers famously turn their faces to follow the sun as it crosses the sky. But how do sunflowers “see” the sun to follow it? New work from plant biologists at UC Davis, published Oct. 31 in PLOS ...