The National Sunflower Association and North Dakota Tourism introduced the idea to create National Sunflower Day in 2022. Each year on the first Saturday in August, we intend to spread joy about the happiest flower on earth during National Sunflower Day.
A partnership between the National Sunflower Association and North Dakota Tourism gives anyone who visits the state a chance to see the thousands of acres of fields every year in late summer with their Sunflower Map. This map includes exact coordinates of sunflower fields across the state and weekly updates from the farmers who cultivate them on how the bloom is going. Visitors can time their visits when the fields are at their most beautiful. Some of the fields even include a sunflower mailbox full of free and locally grown and processed sunflower seeds.