Sunflower

:Sunflowers is also a series of paintings by Vincent van Gogh.

Greek myth

In Greek myth, a girl named Clytie fell in love with the sun god Apollo, and would do nothing but watch his chariot move across the sky. After nine days, she was transformed into a sunflower. However, the word "sunflower" and its cognates existed long before Helianthus annuus was brought to Europe, and it is thought that the myth (which is mentioned in Ovid's poem Metamorphoses) actually refers to the marigold.

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Greek: The noun Greek refers to:...

Clytie: :Clytia can also be another spelling for the genus Clutia....

Apollo: Apollo (Greek: Απόλλων, Ap?llōn) is a god in Greek and Roman mythology, the son of Zeus and Leto, and the twin of Artemis (goddess of the hunt). In later times he became in part confused or equated with Helios, god of the sun, and his sister similarly equated ...

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