Flowers Flashcards
Flowering plants (angiosperms) are the dominant form of
Land planrs
Angiosperms much more numerous and diverse than _
Gymnosperms
Notable for various ways of spreading (2)
Pollen
Seeds
Wind-pollinated have no _ and insect pollinated flowers have _
Nectar
No _ produced in wind-pollinated _ produced in insect pollinated
Scent
Insect polllinated plants have _
Colorful petals
Pendulums _ hand outside of flower so exposed to wind (2)
Stigma
Stamen
Stigma/stamen inside flower to _
Run pollen off on insect
Stigma on wind pollinators have _ surface area
Large
Stigma on insect pollinators have _ surface area
Small
Stigma is _ to catch pollen from air (wind)
Feathery
Stigma not feathery but often _ (insect)
Sticky
Small, light, smooth pollen grains are easily _
Carried by wind
Pollen grains are _ to attach to insects (2)
Large
Barbed
Large amounts of pollen produced, increasing chance of _ (wind)
Pollen reaching target