During centuries, sunflower was grown as an ornamental. Targioni-Tozzetti mentions it as an ornamental, and Candolle omits it because he did not deal with ornamentals.
Read [[:fr:Piante da fiori d'ornamento (Targioni-Tozzetti, Cenni)#Helianthus annuus|Targioni-Tozzetti (1853)]], [[Gray & Trumbull, 1883. Review of DeCandolle's Origin of Cultivated Plants. Part 1#Helianthus annuus|Gray & Trumbull (1883)]] and [[Helianthus (Sturtevant, 1919)|Sturtevant (1919)]] articles.
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