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Plants that are adapted to drier climates are called xerophytes (an example if these types of plants are cactus). Some of these plants have adapted small, thick leaves with a reduced surface area. They may also have a thickened cuticle to protect themselves from the environment. The stomata may be sunken into pits. Some xerophytes shed their leaves during the driest seasons and others can store water such as cacti. CAM plants uptake CO2 at night and change it into crassulacean acid that can be broken down during the day for sugars. These plants can close their stomata during the day.

At about day 14, two or three flowers open on most plants in which one begins pollinating as followed. Simply use a small fine tipped paintbrush and cross-pollinate all four plants with each other. Repeat the same step, in four days going. After the third pollination carefully remove all unopened buds by pinching them. Take away all new buds for the next two weeks or as necessary. Seeds are now ready to harvest after about 21 days after pollination. Carry the quads with plants away from the watering try while letting them dry for five days. Remove dried seedpods from the quads and roll them between your fingers to free the seeds from the pod. Count and store seeds in an envelope, labeled with your name and

To solve this problem our group placed stakes next to each plant in the pots and used wire to provide the plants with support to grow upright and stay in place. Furthermore, to prevent crosspollination with another groups plants all of our plants where covered with pollination bags. In addition, our plants were given 1-2 inches of water constant for 29 days and place in a room that provided fluorescent light for 24 hours a day to get our plants to grow at their full potential. After a couple weeks of plant growth the flowers where then able to pollinate to perform this procedure we used a tool called a chenille rod or “bee stick” where we would lightly touch the anthers of the flowers with the bee stick and transfer the pollen on the stick between the P1 and P2 plants. During weeks 7 and 8 watering of our plants stopped to allow our plants to dry under light before the seeds can be collected from the pods. Once the seeds were ready to be collected they were harvested in dry pods over a petri dish and allowed to germinate in a filer paper within the petri dish. Once our seeds where settled in neat rows we kept it well light and moist at all times and recorded our findings (CSUF,

I learned that each individual section of the plant/flower structure has its own use. The petals of a flower are used to attract insects or smaller animals while the anther produces pollen. The pollen that is produced by the anther is carried by insects or animals to the pistil of another flower where it may fertilize the eggs.

One example is the Texas redbud, it blooms in early spring with a lovely magenta hue found in its leaves. They usually grow to be small trees or as multi-trunked shrubs growing to a height of 15-20 feet. Another plant would be the shrubby boneset which is a type of shrub that grows 2-6 feet tall with small white flowers appearing in fuzzy clusters on the much-branched stems coming from the base. A succulent example is the twisted leaf yucca, its name comes from its leaves, though the leaves are sprouted straight, they become twisted with age over time. It has flowering stalks that often grow over 5 feet tall bearing bundles of bell shaped white flowers, sprouting from April to June.

This plant is known for its year-round growth and strength in various climates. 5.

UCSB Science Line. (2015). Flowers at night?. [online] Available at: http://scienceline.ucsb.edu/getkey.php?key=3098 [Accessed 10 Mar. 2017].

The Hydrilla life cycle is the perennial aquatic it mean that a plant that live for more that 2 year so the Hydrilla flower will die in the winter and fall. Hydrilla grow in partly water ,as a water

Stems are long and weak, square in cross section, prickly (spiny) with glands on young parts. Leaves are matt, mid-green, deeply veined and sometimes hairy. The lamina is pear or oval shaped, pointed to broadly-rounded apex, rounded base, round or regular toothed margins with wrinkled and strigose (sharp oppressed rigid bristly hairs) upper surface. When the leaves are crushed, a strong and distinctive odour is exuded. Flower heads have many smaller flowers. Each flower is tubular-shaped and have 4 spreading lobes (petals), changing colour with age. The colours would be a various combinations of white, yellow, orange, red or pink. Fruit is a berry or drupe arranged in clusters. The fruit is green and becomes purple-black when mature. This plant takes over huge areas usually in moist gullies, along drainage lines and around wetlands. It can be found scrambling high into tree tops. The intense growth of the weed restricts any plant to grow beneath it or around it. This results in plant growth being restricted and not allowing plantation to develop.

Each medium-green leaf is deeply cut with five-pointed lobes. As the trade name suggests, the foliage turns into an autumn blaze of orange-red to scarlet-red fall color. Flowers and fruit for this hybrid are very sparse.

Vegetation is a key factor in determining the structure of an ecosystem. It determines many ecological parameters within a plant community such as microclimate, energy budged, photosynthesis, water regimes, surface runoff and soil temperature (Tappeiner and Cernusca, 1996). Vegetation of an area varies from place to place according to habitat heterogeneity of the area itself. The description and classification of the plant community in an ecosystem is known as Phytosociology (Braun-Blanquet, 1932; Odum, 1971). It’s an important characteristic in describing vegetation that offers a preliminary picture of the ecological character of the vegetation (Kershaw, 1973). Each site of study

Plant#1: The White Pine Tree has adapted to the climate with the help of humans and other natural forces

Note: This Cornerstone supports cross-disciplinary study with the Grade 2 Science Cornerstone, The Best of Bugs: Designing Hand Pollinators. This ELA Cornerstone builds plant-related vocabulary and helps students understand the life cycle of plants. The Best of Bugs expands on the part of the life cycle related to seed dispersal and pollination and develops concepts of interdependence on plants and animals.

Lambs Ear- Lives in zones 4-10 6” to 8” high and likes full sun. It is drought tolerant and is a bedding plant which is why I chose it.

The flower has one large banner petal, two lateral wing petals, and a keel made up of two petals fused together. The keel petals surround the nine stamens and pistil.[6] The flowers are usually bright yellow with reddish veins and tubular calyx, grow at the base of the plant, and cluster in groups of two to six.[ 2] The long stems of the flower bend toward the ground when the flower matures so that the ovary is forced into the earth, this how the peanut fruits mature underground. Peanuts have pods that become dry and hard as they mature and fruits that lack pulp which is why they are considered part of the dry fruit group.