Learn 22 fascinating facts about sunflowers, from their ancient origins in North America to their modern applications in oil, food, and art. Discover how sunflowers follow the sun, symbolize adoration, and have various meanings in different cultures. Sunflower is the most popular oilseed crop in Europe and North America, where the crop originated and was domesticated during the first millennium B.C. While the Native Americans used many different plant parts of wild sunflowers as medicines and culinary, the crop was first spread across the world as ornamental. For easy identification, divided into 3 varieties of sunflower namely, giant sunflower, dwarf sunflower, and colored sunflowers. You can learn about the three types of sunflowers below. Post Malone White logo hat featuring blurred screen printed graphics on front. "Sunflower" is the #1 hit-single from the official soundtrack album Spider-Man™: Into the Spider-Verse.