LEC 03

Flowering Plant Terms

LOCAL FLORA – Lecture 03Dr. Donald P. Althoff

Flowering …remember:

• _________ (flowers, that is) to Angiosperms (= Magnoliophyta = Anthrophyta)

• Early plants (and still many today) probably _________ with insects to facilitate transfer of pollen more efficiently, when compared to wind- or water-transferred pollen

• The reward for the animal pollen transporter is a ____________ food

FLIESBEETLES

BATS BEES

NOCTURID MOTHS

HAWKMOTH

DIURNAL LEPIDOPTERA

HUMMINGBIRD

“____________” flower

stigma

style

ovary

anther

filament

corolla calyx

_____________ Flowers

Composite Flowers

DISK = _________________________________

Bracts = __________ = ________________…terms associated with composite flower types

A reduced “_____________________ at the base of a flower (they “subtend” the flower cluster)

Scape = __________________ arising from ground level (usually from a basal rosette) in plants without stems.

Leaves of these plants are almost always all basal (ex. dandelion, early saxifrage)

____________________….a group or cluster of flowers

arranged on a stem

DETERMINATEINFLORESCENCE

First flower to open is at the top or middle….

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INDETERMINATEINFLORESCENCE

First flowers to open are at the base….

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INDETERMINATEINFLORESCENCE

Determinant or Indeterminate florescence?