In 1000 BCE we find the earliest evidence of Native American tribes cultivating domesticated sunflowers. In 1580, almost a hundred years after they began colonising the Americas, Spanish explorers brought sunflower seeds across the pond and began growing them as ornamental garden crops. After the Second World War, the Russian oilseed variety was reintroduced to the U.S. Currently, almost half of the world's sunflower seeds come from Ukraine and the Russian Federation. The sunflower is even the national flower of Ukraine. Kansas (an American state) is known as the "Sunflower State."

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