The leaves have tiny white spots on them ... All of them will eat sunflower leaves, but the lesser goldfinch really loves them, and it’s likely those are the birds you’re seeing.

The leaves have tiny white spots on them ... All of them will eat sunflower leaves, but the lesser goldfinch really loves them, and it’s likely those are the birds you’re seeing.

Q: A lot of Swiss chard at our community garden has leaves that have spots and turned ... cilantro, and annual sunflower (not the pollen-less variety). As with other garden pests and problems ...

Sunflowers are the part of the most diverse family among flowering plants, Asteraceae ... it sports two or three ray flowers that are white with maroon stripes, with a few unremarkable disk ...