"China Cat Sunflower" is a song by the Grateful Dead, which was first recorded for their 1969 studio album Aoxomoxoa.

Lyrically, this song has many literary references, including Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland, George Herriman's Krazy Kat, and Dame Edith Sitwell's "Polka".

"[2] The Grateful Dead first performed "China Cat Sunflower" on January 17, 1968, at the Fillmore West (then called the Carousel Ballroom) in San Francisco.

On September 30, 1969, the Grateful Dead first segued "China Cat Sunflower" into "I Know You Rider" (a traditional folk song) at Cafe Au Go Go in New York City.

Epler named a new species of diving beetle (family Dytiscidae) for the song; it is called Uvarus sinofelihelianthus.