1. The Botany of Desire Let me tell you about the birds and the bees,
the flowers and the trees
and the moon up above
and a thing called…

2. How Plants Crawled Out of the Ocean and Conquered the Land in 4 Stages
Seaweeds
Mosses
Ferns
Conifers
Flowers
Haploid Body
Diploid Zygote
Haploid Body
Diploid Capsule
Rhizoids
Diploid Body
Haploid Thallus
Roots
Xylem & Phloem
Diploid Body
Sperm & Egg
Roots
Xylem & Phloem
Cones & Catkins
Seeds
Diploid Body
Sperm & Egg
Xylem & Phloem
Seeds
Flowers
Fruits
Oceans
Underwater
Wetlands
4 inches tall
Wetlands
50 feet tall
Deserts, Alpine, Taiga
Up to 300 feet tall
All Biomes
Up to 300 feet tall

13. Primitive Flowers No sepals Many petals Many stamens Many pistils
Simple fruits
Radial symmetry
Superior carpels

14. Fixed Number of Parts
Sepals
Petals
Stamens
Pistils
Carpels

15. Superior Ovary

16. Inferior Ovary

17. Bilateral Symmetry