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True Or False, This Is A Good Plant

Why are some plants called “false”? Like the Midwestern native False Sunflower (Heliopsis helianthoides), whose common name implies that it is guilty of impersonating a sunflower (Helianthus sp.). This is unfair on so many levels. First of all, who is to say that the sunflowers came first, and that the Heliopsis is the imitation? Even …