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Short answer: the sunflower IS an angiosperm (flowering plant).

Here is the taxomomy (classification) of a sunflower:

  • Kingdom: Plantae -it is a plant
  • Subkingdom: Tracheobionta - it is a vascular plant
  • Superdivision: Spermatophyta - it is a seed plant
  • Division: Magnoliophyts - Flowering Plants (this is the division of Angiosperms)
  • Class: Magnoliopsida - dicotyledons
  • Subclass: Asteridae (aster is Latin for "star" - these flowers are star-shaped)
  • Order: Asterales
  • Family: Asteraceae
  • Genus Helianthus (heli = sun + anthus = flower)

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Yes, a sunflower is an angiosperm. Angiosperms are flowering plants that produce seeds enclosed within a fruit, and sunflowers produce seeds within a structure called a "head" that is surrounded by petals.

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