Sunflower

Quality:

Common sunflower - species of flowering plant in the family of Asteraceae. This taxon is the 181^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 26.6 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). 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 330^th most popular in Simple English Wikipedia.

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The 1389^th most editable in Simple English Wikipedia.

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

Global Wikipedia:

The 8255^th most popular in all topics.

The 4168^th most popular in AI.

The 181^st most popular in taxon.

Achievements in the last month:

Simple English Wikipedia:

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The 2961^st most popular in Simple English Wikipedia in the last month.

Global Wikipedia:

The 8856^th most popular in AI in the last month.

Since the creation of article “Sunflower”, its content was written by 69 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia (1389^th place) and edited by 3845 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (4168^th place).

Common sunflower is on the 11^th place in local ranking of taxon in Simple English Wikipedia and on the 181^st place in global ranking of taxon in all the time.

The article is cited 68 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 9869 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: #2442 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, 2025 (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	English (en) Common sunflower		83.4849
3	German (de) Sonnenblume		75.2543
4	Tamil (ta) சூரியகாந்தி		68.8966
5	Malay (ms) Bunga matahari		66.6053
6	Swedish (sv) Solros		63.8629
7	Hindi (hi) सूरजमुखी		63.1114
8	Italian (it) Helianthus annuus		58.595
9	Estonian (et) Harilik päevalill		58.4424
10	Chinese (zh) 向日葵		55.9309

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	Spanish (es) Helianthus annuus		4 068 071
2	Japanese (ja) ヒマワリ		3 740 951
3	English (en) Common sunflower		2 851 754
4	German (de) Sonnenblume		2 701 018
5	Portuguese (pt) Girassol		2 098 204
6	French (fr) Tournesol		1 852 397
7	Italian (it) Helianthus annuus		1 566 167
8	Indonesian (id) Bunga matahari		1 234 852
9	Chinese (zh) 向日葵		1 071 398
10	Russian (ru) Подсолнечник однолетний		896 493

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		35 617
2	Japanese (ja) ヒマワリ		13 404
3	Spanish (es) Helianthus annuus		10 228
4	German (de) Sonnenblume		6 833
5	French (fr) Tournesol		5 249
6	Chinese (zh) 向日葵		4 802
7	Italian (it) Helianthus annuus		3 753
8	Portuguese (pt) Girassol		3 621
9	Thai (th) ทานตะวัน		2 467
10	Korean (ko) 해바라기		2 137

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		929
2	German (de) Sonnenblume		392
3	French (fr) Tournesol		225
4	Spanish (es) Helianthus annuus		166
5	Dutch (nl) Zonnebloem		154
6	Italian (it) Helianthus annuus		147
7	Japanese (ja) ヒマワリ		144
8	Chinese (zh) 向日葵		101
9	Hebrew (he) חמנית מצויה		99
10	Russian (ru) Подсолнечник однолетний		96

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		7
2	German (de) Sonnenblume		4
3	Basque (eu) Ekilore		2
4	Persian (fa) آفتابگردان		2
5	Azerbaijani (az) Birillik günəbaxan		1
6	Danish (da) Almindelig solsikke		1
7	Hebrew (he) חמנית מצויה		1
8	Indonesian (id) Bunga matahari		1
9	Italian (it) Helianthus annuus		1
10	Serbian (sr) Сунцокрет		1

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

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