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the secret history : the unauthorized biography of the world's most beloved weed
Promiscuously social and perennially popular, the sunflower has colored the narrative of human history for the past thousand years.
Of bees, mathematicians, and the sex life of sunflowers -- The godfather of sunflowers and the sunflower detective -- The cultivation controversy -- A wildflower tamed -- Plant hunters of the Newe World (and the sad tale of the SunChoke) -- The United States of Sunflower -- Russian's unofficial national flower -- Welcome home-- sunflowers in North America -- Comrade Helianthus: war, repression, and coming of age in Soviet Russia -- The sunflower gap -- Space flower -- Fights for the future -- Welcome to Fargo.
Includes bibliographical references (pages [244]-249) and index.