Sunflowers in Farmstead World — crop in the game, and what it is on a real farm.
A sunflower is an aster with a broad flower head whose seeds are eaten or pressed for oil.
The young head follows the sun across the sky, then settles facing east as the seeds ripen.
Farm facts about sunflowers
Young sunflower buds track the sun from east to west across the sky each day, then swing back east overnight — but mature flower heads stop moving and face east for good. (en.wikipedia.org)
A young sunflower's sun-following runs on an internal circadian clock and continues even on cloudy days when the sun never appears. (en.wikipedia.org)
Facing east at dawn warms a mature sunflower head quickly, which attracts more pollinating insects. (en.wikipedia.org)
A sunflower 'flower' is actually a head of hundreds of tiny florets — each yellow 'petal' around the edge is its own small, sterile ray flower. (en.wikipedia.org)
Sunflower seeds spiral in intersecting curves of 34 and 55 — neighboring Fibonacci numbers — and a very large head can show 89 and 144. (en.wikipedia.org)
Each sunflower floret grows about 137.5 degrees from its neighbor — the golden angle — creating the most efficient seed packing mathematically possible. (en.wikipedia.org)