flowers

[Lesley Sutto]

Why is the sunflower so called?

What is the national flower of Spain?

[lankeela]

Presumably because it looks like any picture of the sun drawn by a three year old!

Spain has no national flower - it does have the pomegranate.

[irisred]

Sunflower so called because it tracks the path of the sun through the sky during the day.

No news about the flower of Spain tho, sorry!

[nickmo]

The Latin name of sunflower is from the name the Sun God: Helianthus, as it follows the sun in its circuit of the sky - in French, Sunflower is tournesol, or literally "turn with the sun".

Officially Spain does not have a flower,(think it used to be the carnation) but the Pomegranate is quoted as one most often. Doesn't have a bird either.