What is a flower?
A flower is a part of an angiosperm plant.
Flowers are often described as a modified stem. (3)
What does a flower do?
Flowers are nature’s way of ensuring the plant will reproduce via seeds and carry on its genetic makeup. (2)
What are types of flowers?
pistillate flowers or carpellate – female flower (1)
staminate flowers – male flower (1)
Almost all flowers can be classified into pistillate and staminate flowers, some flowers have both male and female structures in the same flower. (2)
Flowers by ?
regular flowers
irregular flowers
Flowers by Ovary
superior flowers
inferior flowers
Flowers by Color
| White Flowers | Purple Flowers | |
| Pink Flowers | Orange Flowers | |
| Red Flowers | Blue Flowers |
What are parts of a flower?
(picture of flower, with parts indicated)
sepals
petals
carpels
Base of a flower parts: peduncle, receptacle (4)
What are parts of a male flower?
stamen (4)
anther (4)
filament (4)
What are parts of a female flower?
pistil (4)
carpel (4)
stigma (4)
style (4)
ovary (4)
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ovules
perianth
petal/coralla
sepal/calyx
nectary
pedicel
floral axis
microsporangium
seeds
teptals
Resources
1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gynoecium
2. https://homeguides.sfgate.com/flowers-pistil-stamen-96736.html
3. https://www.vedantu.com/biology/carpel-and-pistil
4. https://www.activewild.com/parts-of-a-flower/
