Mexican sunflower

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Mexican sunflower - any plant of the genus Tithonia; tall coarse herbs or shrubs of Mexico to Panama having large flower heads resembling sunflowers with yellow disc florets and golden-yellow to orange-scarlet rays

tithonia

flower - a plant cultivated for its blooms or blossoms

genus Tithonia - genus of robust herbs of Mexico and Central America: Mexican sunflower

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genus Tithonia tithonia			One of the showiest plants to mark the coming of fall, said Clark, is the New Mexican sunflower, called Helianthus maximilian neomexicana. EPHEMERAL BLOOMS by The Santa Fe New Mexican (Santa Fe, NM) The leaves of the Mexican sunflower are usually coarse and reach a length between 6 and 8 inches. Growing Mexican Sunflowers by Ryan J Bell / Home improvement and landscaping community RELATED ARTICLE: Butterfly Magnets To lure butterflies to your garden, try planting black-eyed Susan, milkweed, coreopsis, day lily, goldenrod, hibiscus, marigold, purple coneflower, rosemary, dill, verbena, phlox, zinnias, marigolds, daisies, thistles, butterfly bush, Mexican sunflower, yellow cosmos and candle bush. Natural attraction: coaxing butterflies to your garden is a snap with ... by O'Neill, Francoise / Sarasota Magazine			Mexican cypress Mexican fire plant Mexican flameleaf Mexican freetail bat Mexican gold poppy Mexican green Mexican hairless Mexican hat Mexican hog Mexican husk tomato Mexican hyssop Mexican ivy vine Mexican jumping bean Mexican juniper Mexican lac Mexican mint Mexican monetary unit Mexican nut pine Mexican onyx Mexican peso Mexican pocket mouse Mexican poppy Mexican Revolution Mexican Spanish Mexican standoff Mexican sunflower Mexican swamp cypress Mexican tea Mexican tiger Mexican truffle Mexican tulip poppy Mexican turnip Mexican valium Mexican War Mexican wave Mexican-American Mexicanize Mexicano Mexico Mexico City mexiletine Mexitil Meyer Meyer Guggenheim Meyerbeer Meyerhof Meyerhold Meyne MEZ mezcal mezcaline			Mexican Radio and Television Association Mexican Red Mexican Red-Headed Amazon Mexican Reds Mexican Republic Mexican Republic Mexican Revolution Mexican Revolution Mexican Revolution of 1910–17 Mexican Revolutionary Party Mexican Ridley Mexican rue Mexican rue Mexican Rural Guard Mexican scammony Mexican Sign Language Mexican Silver Mines Ltd. Mexican Singhs Mexican Society of Colon and Rectal Surgeons Mexican Society of Geomorphology Mexican Spanish Mexican Spanish Mexican Spiny Pocket Mouse Mexican spotted fever Mexican Spotted Owl Mexican Spotted Owl Mexican stand-off Mexican standoff Mexican stock exchange Mexican sunflower Mexican swamp cypress Mexican Talent Network Mexican tea Mexican tea Mexican territory before Louisiana Purchase Mexican territory before Louisiana Purchase Mexican territory before Louisiana Purchase Mexican tiger Mexican truffle Mexican truffle Mexican tulip poppy Mexican turnip Mexican turnip Mexican typhus Mexican United States Mexican United States Mexican valium Mexican valium Mexican Virtual Solar Observatory Mexican walking fish Mexican walking fish Mexican walking fish Mexican War Mexican War Mexican wave Mexican waves Mexican weeping juniper Mexican whorled milkweed Mexican whorled milkweed Mexican Wolf Adaptive Management Oversight Committee

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