FIELD BOTANY – Lecture 03Dr. Donald P. Althoff
LEC 03
Flowering Plant Terms
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?
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