Plant Helianthus annuus (Asteraceae) | Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases

Common Names

Sunflower; Girasol

How this plant is used

Food

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List of plant chemicals.
Click on column headings to sort table by that column. *Unless otherwise noted all references are to (Duke, 1992)
Chemical Name	Activity Count	Plant Part	Low Parts Per Million	High Parts Per Million	Standard Deviation	Reference
N-EICOSANE	0	Seed	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
N-HENEICOSANE	0	Seed	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
N-HENTRIACONTANE	3	Seed	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
N-HEPTACOSANE	0	Seed	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
N-HEPTADECANE	0	Seed	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
N-HEXACOSANE	2	Seed	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
N-HEXADECANE	0	Seed	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
N-NONACOSANE	1	Seed	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
N-NONADECANE	0	Seed	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
N-OCTADECANE	0	Seed	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
N-PENTACOSANE	0	Seed	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
N-TETRACOSANE	0	Seed	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
N-TRIDEC-2-ONE	0	Flower	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
NEO-CHLOROGENIC-ACID	2	Seed	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
NIACIN	39	Seed	45.0	48.0	0.15	Duke, 1992 *
NIVEUSIN-B	0	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
NIVEUSIN-C	2	Leaf	not available	114.0	not available	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
NUCLEIN	0	Seed	not available	5100.0	not available	ANON. 1948-1976. The Wealth of India raw materials. Publications and Information Directorate, CSIR, New Delhi. 11 volumes.
O-HYDROXYBENZOIC-ACID	0	Seed	not available	not available	not available	Rizk, A.F.M. and Al-Nowaihi, A.S., The Phytochemistry of the Horticultural Plants of Qatar, Scientific and Applied Research Centre, University of Qatar.
OLEANOLIC-ACID	64	Flower	not available	not available	not available	Rizk, A.F.M. and Al-Nowaihi, A.S., The Phytochemistry of the Horticultural Plants of Qatar, Scientific and Applied Research Centre, University of Qatar.

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List of plant activities.
Click on column headings to sort table by that column. *Unless otherwise noted all references are to (Duke, 1992)
Activity	Chemical Count	Reference
Antilactobacillic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antilaryngitic	1	Duke, 1992 *
AntiLegionella	2	Duke, 1992 *
Antileishmanic	3	Duke, 1992 *
Antilepric	1	Martindale's 29th
Antileukemic	9	Duke, 1992 *
Antileukonychic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antileukoplakic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antileukorrheic	1	Martindale's 29th
Antileukotriene	5	Duke, 1992 *
Antileukotriene-D4	3	Duke, 1992 *
Antileukotrienogenic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antilipoperoxidant	2	Duke, 1992 *
Antilisteria	2	Duke, 1992 *
Antilithic	6	Duke, 1992 *
Antilithic?	1	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Antilupus	2	Martindale's 28th
AntiLyme	4	Duke, 1992 *
Antilymphomic	4	Duke, 1992 *
Antimaculitic	5	Joseph, J., Nadeau, D. and Underwood, A. 2001. The Color Code. Hyperion, NY.