Plants with tricks up their sleeves
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Plants with tricks up their sleeves8 stories · about 9 min reading
Eight stories for a closer look: protected seeds, winged fruits, trap leaves, photosynthetic stems and ferns without flowers. Open the diagrams, compare local photographs and draw the parts that distinguish these plants.
- Read the landscape through the plantsA pine cone has little homes for seedsThe woody scales hide a detail worth noticing.Read this story
- Read the landscape through the plantsA fruit with a wingFor ash, shape helps fruit travel.Read this story
- Read the landscape through the plantsSeeds that travel by waterAlder has a close relationship with rivers.Read this story
- Read the landscape through the plantsIt looks like dew, but it is a trapSundew leaves also catch food.Read this story
- Read the landscape through the plantsA shrub with well-defended branchesSpines are part of the gorse’s silhouette.Read this story
- Read the landscape through the plantsA blackberry is a small clusterA bramble’s fruit has more detail than it first appears.Read this story
- Read the landscape through the plantsCarqueja stems work tooLeaves do not do all the photosynthesis.Read this story
- Read the landscape through the plantsA plant does not need flowersFerns tell a different story of reproduction.Read this story