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Lower Plains: Kansas, Nebraska
Further Reading
Nault, Jennifer.
Kansas: The Sunflower State
. New York: Weigl Publishers, 2012.
Reece, Richard.
Bleeding Kansas
. Minneapolis: ABDO Publishing Co., 2012.
Stallard, Mark.
Tales from the Kansas Jayhawks Locker Room: A Collection of the Greatest
Jayhawks Basketball Stories Ever Told
. New York: Sports Publishing, 2012.
Kansas’s sunflowers, which reach their maximum height during August, are not just pretty flowers.
Their seeds are harvested and used as food, or to produce sunflower oil.