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Safflower is a highly branched, herbaceous, thistle-like annual plant. It is commercially cultivated for vegetable oil extracted from the seeds. Plants are 30 to 150 cm tall with globular flower heads having yellow, orange, or red flowers
Humans. The biggest consumers of safflowers are humans. Humans usesafflower oil in cooking, eat the seeds in trail mixes, and even use the flowers as a stand-in for the prohibitively expensive spice saffron. Safflowers have been used inhuman civilizations for 4,000 years, dating back to the Egyptians.