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Flowers

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Edible Flowers

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Recommended Edible Flower Varieties
VarietyDescription
Nasturtium - Cup of Sun
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35-52 days • Yellow and gold • 10-12" tall

Cup of Sun grows easily and quickly so plants are soon covered with cheerful flowers. Masses of these perky blossoms shine above the foliage.

Johnny Jump Ups
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65-85 days • Violet, mauve, yellow and white • 6-10" tall

Also known as Heart’s Ease, these dainty little flowers look like jaunty miniature pansies. Johnny Jump Ups are both weather tolerant and long blooming. Blossoms are edible with a mild wintergreen flavor.

Sunflower - Bright Bandolier
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65 days • Yellow and mahogany • 5-7' tall

This pretty mix of sunny yellow and warm burnished mahogany. Easy-to-grow plants bear magnificent big flowers. After blooming, they offer nutritious seed treats for fall songbirds.

Sunflower - Evening Sun
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8-10" • 75-95 days • Yellow and burgundy • 7' tall

Beautiful variety with medium-large blooms in shades of burgundy, rust, bronze, bright yellow, and crimson. Produces many flowers over a long season.

Sunflower - Lemon Queen
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3-5" • 70-90 days • Yellow and brown • 5-8' tall

A wonderful poly-headed variety, flowers have a light brown center surrounded by bright lemon-yellow petals.

Sunflower - Mammoth
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10-12" • 80-100 days • Yellow and brown • 12' tall

This giant single-stalk sunflower is a fast grower. Edible, gray-striped seeds and edible, bittersweet petals. Attracts pollinators.

Sunflower - Sundancer
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65 days • Orange and brown • 5-6' tall

Sturdy, branching stalks bear multitudes of stunning golden-orange flower faces. Grows quickly and blooms early.

Sunflower - Teddybear
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10-12" • 70-90 days • Yellow • 12' tall

This giant, single-stalk sunflower is a fast grower. Easy to grow, not fussy about soil conditions and is drought tolerant.

Catalog photo credits: UC Master Gardeners—1P. Dimas, 2P. Joki, 3D. Laner, 4T. Loftus, 5G. Myers, 6S. Wentz, 7S. Wood, 8C. Yip, 9Unknown UC Master Gardener of Alameda County.