About Hopi Black Dye

Yellow 5–12" flowers with edible purple-black seeds that will color your fingers purple. The Hopi people use this dye for fabric and baskets. With different treatments, dye colors include blues, purples, maroons, and even black.

See "Hopi Dyes" by Mary-Russell Ferrell Colton and "A Dyers Garden: From Plant to Pot: Growing Dyes for Natural Fibers" by Rita Buchanan.

About Sunflower

Late summer and fall bloomers, sunflowers are the sentinels of the garden, loved by children and birds alike. Cultivated by southwestern Native peoples as early as 3000 B.C., then taken to Europe by the Spanish around 1500 A.D. It's likely that they will self-seed next year if left in the garden over winter.

Pot Size & Price
Seed Packets
$3.00
Height
72"–132"
Sunlight Exposure
Full Sun
Catalog
A380
Plant Traits
Culinary
Organic

Other varieties of Sunflower

Helianthus Autumn Beauty, brown center, gold petals become rusty orange toward the centers
Photo from High Mowing Seeds

Autumn Beauty

Catalog
A384
Helianthus Fireworks Blend, sunflowers with petals in yellow blending to burnt orange
Photo from High Mowing Seeds

Fireworks Blend

Catalog
A379
Helianthus Mammoth Russian, classic sunflower with short yellow petals
Photo from High Mowing Seeds

Mammoth Russian

Catalog
A381
Helianthus Red Blend, rusty red petals are darker toward the dark centers
Photo from High Mowing Seeds

Red Blend

Catalog
A382
Helianthus Tarahumara, classic sunflower with gold petals
Photo from Seed Savers Exchange

Tarahumara

Catalog
A385
Helianthus Teddy Bear, gold pompom flowers
Photo from Seed Savers Exchange

Teddy Bear

Catalog
A383