Climate changes said harm sunflowers - AP

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Source: Associated Press

Climate changes said harm sunflowers

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KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Imagine the Sunflower State without its sunflowers.
That's one of the dire predictions contained in a new report on global
warming released by the National Wildlife Federation, which says the
Kansas state flower could move north to other states in a few decades.

Increasingly warm temperatures also could mean the end of the state
tree, the eastern cottonwood, according to "The Gardener's Guide to
Global Warming."

"Everything being equal, these plants won't thrive and will shift north,"
said Patty Glick, the report's author and senior global warming
specialist for the National Wildlife Federation.

While conditions could change, Glick and other say projected increasing
temperatures also could wipe out cool-weather grasses, such as
Kentucky bluegrass, and many fescues that cover lawns in the region.

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Related: Gardener's Guide to Global Warming - National Wildlife Federation