Easy Sunflower Watercolor Painting for Beginners

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Did you know those bright yellow “petals” on a sunflower aren’t actually petals at all? 🌻 They’re ray flowers, and the classic dark center of a sunflower is in fact a cluster of disk flowers. That means what we might think of as a single sunflower is actually a flower head containing dozens, hundreds, or even thousands of tiny flowers, depending on the species! Here, NCBG research botanist Scott Ward gets into some of the basics of the (admittedly quite complicated) floral morphology of the ast