Sunflower

Quality:

Common sunflower - species of flowering plant in the family of Asteraceae. This taxon is the 131^st most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of taxon and the 11^th most popular taxon in Simple English Wikipedia. Article “Sunflower” in Simple English Wikipedia has 24.4 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 4 references and 3 sections.

This article has the best quality in Norwegian (Nynorsk) Wikipedia. However, the most popular language version of this article is English.

Achievements in all the time:

Simple English Wikipedia:

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The 334^th most popular in Simple English Wikipedia.

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The 1419^th most editable in Simple English Wikipedia.

The 11^th most popular in taxon in Simple English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 6500^th most popular in all topics.

The 4130^th most popular in AI.

The 131^st most popular in taxon.

Achievements in the last month:

Simple English Wikipedia:

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The 3013^th most popular in Simple English Wikipedia in the last month.

Global Wikipedia:

The 5606^th most popular in AI in the last month.

Since the creation of article “Sunflower”, its content was written by 71 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia (1419^th place) and edited by 3917 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (4130^th place).

Common sunflower is on the 11^th place in local ranking of taxon in Simple English Wikipedia and on the 131^st place in global ranking of taxon in all the time.

The article is cited 69 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 9909 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #107 in May 2015
• Global: #1139 in March 2010

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #16 in August 2021
• Global: #2366 in February 2015

There are 49 language versions for this article in the WikiRank database (of the considered 55 Wikipedia language editions).

The quality and popularity assessment was based on Wikipédia dumps from July 1, 2026 (including revision history and pageviews for previous years).

The table below shows the language versions of the article with the highest quality.

#	Language	Quality grade	Quality score
1	Norwegian (Nynorsk) (nn) Solsikke		100
2	Chinese (zh) 向日葵		96.839
3	English (en) Common sunflower		81.4044
4	German (de) Sonnenblume		69.1556
5	Malay (ms) Bunga matahari		68.3165
6	Tamil (ta) சூரியகாந்தி		67.9063
7	Swedish (sv) Solros		64.5716
8	Hindi (hi) सूरजमुखी		63.0736
9	Italian (it) Helianthus annuus		58.4469
10	Estonian (et) Harilik päevalill		57.374

The following table shows the most popular language versions of the article.

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Common sunflower		8 477 223
2	Spanish (es) Helianthus annuus		4 166 998
3	Japanese (ja) ヒマワリ		3 862 671
4	German (de) Sonnenblume		2 784 951
5	Portuguese (pt) Girassol		2 133 504
6	French (fr) Tournesol		1 911 561
7	Italian (it) Helianthus annuus		1 604 405
8	Indonesian (id) Bunga matahari		1 260 845
9	Chinese (zh) 向日葵		1 118 385
10	Russian (ru) Подсолнечник однолетний		984 025

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Common sunflower		29 959
2	Japanese (ja) ヒマワリ		9 616
3	German (de) Sonnenblume		6 160
4	Spanish (es) Helianthus annuus		5 997
5	French (fr) Tournesol		5 278
6	Chinese (zh) 向日葵		3 532
7	Italian (it) Helianthus annuus		3 455
8	Korean (ko) 해바라기		3 159
9	Portuguese (pt) Girassol		2 307
10	Thai (th) ทานตะวัน		1 458

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Common sunflower		963
2	German (de) Sonnenblume		401
3	French (fr) Tournesol		226
4	Spanish (es) Helianthus annuus		169
5	Dutch (nl) Zonnebloem		155
6	Italian (it) Helianthus annuus		150
7	Japanese (ja) ヒマワリ		149
8	Chinese (zh) 向日葵		107
9	Hebrew (he) חמנית מצויה		102
10	Russian (ru) Подсолнечник однолетний		100

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest in the last month.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Common sunflower		8
2	German (de) Sonnenblume		5
3	Korean (ko) 해바라기		3
4	Russian (ru) Подсолнечник однолетний		2
5	Arabic (ar) دوار الشمس		1
6	Azerbaijani (az) Birillik günəbaxan		1
7	Catalan (ca) Gira-sol		1
8	Czech (cs) Slunečnice roční		1
9	Basque (eu) Ekilore		1
10	Portuguese (pt) Girassol		1

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest number of citations.

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