Blooms: Summer

Flower Language:
haughtiness (Victorian)
Loyalty

Emblem:

National Flower:Russia & Ukraine.
State Flower: Kansas, USA.
Green ideology (as Rose represents socialism)
Vegan Society

History/ Modern Use:

The Incan Indians of peru considered this flower a symbol of the sun and worshipped it accordingly. Priestesses of the temple wore sunflower medallions made of gold.

Sunflower, writes Mr. Ellacombe, was to old writers “the emblem of constancy in affection and sympathy in joy and sorrow”

Literature/ Arts:

Moore, describing its faithful constancy, says-

“the sunflower turns on her god when he sets/ The same look which she did when he rose”

“The flower, enamored of the sun, / At his departure hangs her head and weeps, / And shrouds her sweetness up, and keeps / Sad vigils, like a cloistered nun, / Till his reviving ray appears,/ Waking her beauty as he dries her tears” Plant lore of Shakespeare

Sunflower was the subject of Van Gogh's most famous still life.