Sunflower Tincture & Alcohol-Free Extract

Sunflower (Helianthus annuus) is a tall annual of the daisy family, Asteraceae, native to North America, domesticated by Indigenous peoples thousands of years ago and now grown worldwide as an oilseed crop. It rises 1 to 3 meters or more on a rough, hairy stem with large, heart-shaped, coarsely toothed leaves and a single giant flower head, up to 30 cm across in cultivars, ringed by bright yellow ray petals around a disc of hundreds of small brown florets that mature into striped or black seeds. Young heads track the sun across the sky. We extract the dried petals.