Flowers

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Flowers

• Still more information
• Original by Libby Astrachan
• Modified by Georgia Agriculture Education
  Curriculum Office- July 2004

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Composite flowers

• Considered an inflorescence

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Composite flowers

• Made up of ray and/or disk flowers

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Ray flowers

• Flat and strap-like located in the outer edge
  of a daisy or sunflower

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Disk flowers

• Cylindrical, often located inside ray flowers

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Achene

• The fruit of a sunflower-type (composite) flower

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Composite flowers that have only ray flowers
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Composite flowers that have only disc flowers
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Plant Taxonomy
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Monocots

• Parallel veins in leaves
• Flower parts in 3s or multiples of 3s

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Monocots

• Tend to have flowers where the petals and sepals
  are very similar-looking

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Monocots

• Sometimes have tepals instead of petals or sepals

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Interesting monocot (grass) flowers