Helianthus is a sunflower - they are beautiful!
I've never seen one. Do they grow tall?
I think so, and they are native to north America.
I think I've eaten the seeds in the past.
Helianthus
Helianthus or sunflower () is a genus of plants comprising about 70 species. Except for three species in South America, all "Helianthus" species are native to North America and Central America. The common name, "sunflower", typically refers to the popular annual species "Helianthus annuus", or the common sunflower, whose round flower heads in combination with the ligules look like the sun. This and other species, notably Jerusalem artichoke ("H. tuberosus"), are cultivated in temperate regions and some
Britain, Ireland and North America for a long time, the wording varies surprisingly little across the English versions and the story is always the same, and these probably derive from nineteenth-century broadside printings, of which there are many."
Lyrics.
Lyrics Version One.
poem
The trees they grow high,
the leaves they do grow green
Many is the time my true love I've seen
Many an hour I have watched him all alone
He's young,
but he's daily