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https://www.ksn.com/news/local/how-sunflowers-officially-connect-kansas-and-ukraine/?ipid=promo-link-block1#:~:text=The%20flower%20had%20grown%20wildly%20in%20Kansas%20for,native%20flower%20to%20flourish%20thousands%20of%20miles%20apart.

How sunflowers officially connect Kansas and Ukraine

KANSAS CITY, Kan. (WDAF) – Kansas is the Sunflower State, and Ukraine could be known as the “Sunflower Country.” The flower plays a vital role for those who call each area home.

The sunflower can be seen in pictures of protests in Ukraine following Russia’s invasion. People are also adding the sunflower to Twitter bios and tweets to show support for Ukraine after Ukraine World posted a Ukrainian woman confronting a Russian soldier with sunflower seeds last week.

The flower had grown wildly in Kansas for centuries before its seeds were shipped from North America to Ukraine. It happened long before Kansas made the sunflower the state’s official flower in 1903.

The climate in both Kansas and Ukraine is similar, allowing the native flower to flourish thousands of miles apart. It’s something Mennonite immigrants from Ukraine and the Crimea area learned when they relocated to Kansas in the late 1800s, seeking greater religious freedoms.