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Lower Plains: Kansas, Nebraska

Kansas’s sunflowers, which reach their maximum height during August, are not just pretty flowers. Their seeds are harvested and used as food, or to produce sunflower oil.

Further Reading Nault, Jennifer. Kansas: The Sunflower State . New York: Weigl Publishers, 2012. Reece, Richard. Bleeding Kansas . Minneapolis: ABDO Publishing Co., 2012. Stallard, Mark. Tales from the Kansas Jayhawks Locker Room: A Collection of the Greatest Jayhawks Basketball Stories Ever Told . New York: Sports Publishing, 2012.