I’ve just found out that plants have three important parts. The roots, the stem and the leaves. Some plants also have flowers which are made up of petals. The roots keep the plant in the ground ...

A flower is the reproductive part of flowering plants. Flowers have colourful petals. The petals surround the male and female parts of the flower. The male parts are called stamens,The female ...

After realizing that floral sex parts varied in number, Linnaeus developed a plant classification system based on their sexual anatomy. The number of stamens (which produce male gametes), their length ...

Ecologists whimsically decided to call the parts that make up a flower its whorls. The first whorl of a flower is known as the calyx, which is the plant’s green, leafy outer structure that ...

Fossil evidence leads some botanists to believe that the first flowering plants were herbaceous, meaning they grew no woody parts. (The latest genetic research, however, indicates that most ...

Pansies are technically hardy biennial plants, but we treat them as annuals in this part of the country. Pansies (Viola x wittrockiana) are among the most popular garden flowers today. You will ...