1. Plants By Luke Barry Potato plant

2. What I am finding out… How plants can be classified. The main parts of a flowering plant. Examples of flowering plants. What monocotyledons and dicotyledons are. Examples of non-flowering plants.

3. How can plants be classified? Plants are classified in many different ways. You can classify them into the following groups. Class Subclass Superorder Order Family Subfamily Tribe Subtribe Genus Species Variety Form And cultivar

4. Plant Diagram

5. What are the main parts of a flowering plant? Most flowers have four main parts, they are: Sepals – sepals protect the bud of the flower before it opens up Petals – petals attract insects to the plant Stamens – stamens make the pollen on the flower Carpels – carpels grow into fruit which contain seeds

6. Picture of a flowering plant Sweetbay magnolia (magnolia virginiana)

7. Here are some examples of flowering plants Sunflower Tulip Marigold Lily Jasmine Rose Lotus Hibiscus Petunia Daisy

8. What are monocotyledons and dicotyledons? Monocotyledons and dicotyledons are two major groups of flowering plants. Monocots seedlings generally have only one cotyledon (seed-leaf) whereas dicot seedlings have two. Definition of monocotyledon – flowering plant with a single embryonic seed leaf.

9. What is the difference between monocotyledons and dicotyledons? FeatureIn monocotsIn dicots Number of parts of each flower in threesin fours or fives Number of furrows or pores in pollen onethree Number of cotyledons (leaves in the seed) onetwo Arrangement of vascular bundles in the stem scatteredin concentric circles Rootsare adventitiousdevelop from the radicle Arrangement of major leaf veins parallelreticulate

10. Images Sliced onion (this has parallel veins in the cross section Wheat (an economically important monocot A young caster oil plant showing it’s two cotyledons that dicot seeds produce

11. Monocot VS Dicot Picture monocot dicot

12. Here are some examples of non- flowering plants Algae Fungi Palms Moss Fern

13. Some Facts About Non-Flowering Plants There are about 4,500 different species of non-flowering plant in the world. They can be found under water or on land. Around 30-40% of non-flowering plants are endemic to the country.

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