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Sunflower has how many petals or its multiples?

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Hint: Petals are modified leaves that surround a flower's reproductive parts. To attract pollinators, they are frequently brightly colored or unusually shaped. A flower's corolla is made up of all of its petals.

Complete answer:
Helianthus is a genus of about 70 species of annual and perennial flowering plants in the Asteraceae family. Except for three South American species, all Helianthus species are native to North and Central America. The common names "sunflower" and "common sunflower" typically refer to the popular annual species Helianthus annuus, which has round flower heads in combination with the ligules that look like the sun.

Sunflowers are members of the genus Helianthus, which contains numerous species. Helianthus annuus is the common sunflower, which is grown for its edible oil. Flowers are classified as trimerous, tetramerous, or pentamerous based on the number of floral appendages present (3, 4, or 5).
The sunflower is a pentamerous flower with five or more petals.

Several perennial Helianthus species are grown in gardens, but they spread quickly and can become aggressive. When the US Fish and Wildlife Service issued a final rule protecting the whorled sunflower, Helianthus verticillatus, as an endangered species in 2014, it was listed as an endangered species under the Endangered Species Act.
Thus, sunflower has 5 or more petals.

Note: The common sunflower is valuable from both an economic and an ornamental standpoint. The leaves are used as fodder, the flowers produce a yellow dye, and the seeds contain oil and are eaten.