The second largest family of flowering plants, after Orchidaceae, in terms of number of species.
1Jerusalem artichokes come from North America and are part of the sunflower family.
2They arrived, all dirty and knobbly, looking more like a sad potato than a member of the sunflower family.
3The advancing summer introduces many flowers of the sunflower family, until in August the plains are one blaze of yellow and purple.