"Douglas Bolt" wrote:

This morning a friend brought a pot containing a sunflower-looking plant and
asked for help with identification. I wasn't able to offer much help. It
looks like some sort of a sunflower, but the flower is much lighter yellow
than any sunflower I've ever seen. Five pics of the plant and flower can be
viewed at http://www.boltassociates.com/PlantID/. The plant is growing in
Maryland, USA. It is 2 - 3 ft tall.

I'd vote for a white variety of 'sunflower'. Cook's Garden has one
they call "Italian White" --
http://cooksgarden.com/searchprods.a...pagenumber= 2

I don't know all the different varieties, but the only package of
'mixed' seeds I've ever been pleased with was Cook's "Music Box Mix"
of sunflowers. Never knew there was so much variety of sunflowers.

Jim