🌻 Why Does a Sunflower Face the Sun?

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🌞 What do sunflowers do?

Young sunflowers turn their heads to follow the Sun from morning to evening.

This movement is called heliotropism
(helio = sun, tropism = turning)

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🌱 Why do they do this?

Sunflowers follow the Sun to:

• Get more sunlight
• Make more food
• Grow taller and stronger

Sunlight helps plants make food by photosynthesis 🌿

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🧠 How does the sunflower move?

• The stem grows more on one side than the other
• In the morning, the flower faces east
• During the day, it slowly turns west
• At night, it turns back to the east again

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🌻 What about grown-up sunflowers?

• Adult sunflowers stop moving
• They stay facing east

👉 Facing east helps them:

• Warm up quickly in the morning
• Attract more bees 🐝

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🧠 Easy way to remember

Young sunflowers follow the Sun to grow big and strong

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⭐ Fun facts for kids

• Not all plants can follow the Sun
• Sunflowers are named because they love sunlight
• Bees like warm, sun-facing flowers

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