Hand-picked resource
Wild Sunflower
Pick up Wild Sunflower by hand in Rust for 1 Sunflower Seed, 1 Sunflower. No tool needed.
Where it lives
on a 4,000 m mapEvery 60 seconds the game adds back what is missing from each spawn group, up to 100 per group, at new random spots in its biomes. How respawns work.
Hand-picked yield
no tool needed
A seed lets you farm it. See Farming & Crops.
Methodology
Tested in game on our own server: the number the game aims for in each population on a 4,000 m map. A server can change the settings. Tested on the current version of Rust.
Wild Sunflower: common questions
Where does the Wild Sunflower spawn in Rust?
On a 4,000 m map, Temperate, Tundra and Jungle: 4 per km² (64 in all). Every 60 seconds the game adds back what is missing from each spawn group, up to 100 per group, at new random spots in its biomes.
What does a Wild Sunflower give?
1 Sunflower Seed, 1 Sunflower, picked by hand.