The main problem with these people is that they seek their mythological information on websites of “Miami me lo confirmó” facts, when even serious mythographical summaries say nothing about sunflowers. And also don’t do the proper association of what they are writing.

I think it would be a big plus if they read the myth... I know it's asking too much, but the myth isn't so long that you can't read it, nor is it boring. Besides, Ovid clearly states that she turns into a violet flower.

A pearly white overspread her countenance, that turned as pale and bloodless as the dead; but here and there a blushing tinge resolved in violet tint; and something like the blossom of that name a flower concealed her face. Although a root now holds her fast to earth, the Heliotrope turns ever to the Sun, as if to prove that all may change and love through all remain.

Didn’t point the fact that says Heliotrope because in the latin text I have checked doesn’t says the word “Heliotrope” so ig it’s depending on the translation:

Membra ferunt haesisse solo, partemque coloris luridus exsangues pallor convertit in herbas; est in parte rubor, violaeque simillimus ora flos tegit. Illa suum, quamvis radice tenetur, vertitur ad Solem, mutataque servat amorem.

Full myth in Ovid’s Metamorphoses 4. 192-270

The “turns ever to the Sun” refers that heliotropes only bloom on the side that faces the sun.

So to people who make informative media, please don't say sunflowers have a greek mythological meaning. Neither the ancient Greeks nor Ovid ever saw one in their entire lives😭