How to Identify Black and Purple Sunflowers

How to Identify Black and Purple Sunflowers

1. Leaves

The leaves of the black purple sunflower are opposite, sometimes alternate at the top or all the way. Its leaves have petioles and usually have three veins after leaving the base.

2. Flowers

The flowers of the black and purple sunflower are capitula, solitary or arranged in an umbel shape. There are many small flowers of various shapes in the inflorescence, a layer of asexual ligulate flowers on the outside, and many bisexual flowers that can bear fruits in the center. The flowers of the ligulate flowers are open and yellow in color; the tube of the tubular flowers is very short, bell-shaped at the top, yellow, purple or brown at the top, and has 5 lobes.

3. Fruit

Achenes are oblong or obovate, slightly flattened or with 4 thick ridges.

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