Flowering plants are plants that bear flowers and fruits, and form the clade Angiospermae (/ˌændʒiəˈspərmiː/), commonly called angiosperms. They include...

as a bloom or blossom, is the reproductive structure found in flowering plants (plants of the division Angiospermae). Flowers consist of a combination...

reproduction of flowering plants, the first is the timing of flowering and the other is the size or number of flowers produced. Often plant species have...

genetic structure of nonclonal plant populations. Christian Konrad Sprengel (1793) studied the reproduction of flowering plants and for the first time it was...

liverworts, mosses, lycophytes, ferns, conifers and other gymnosperms, and flowering plants). A definition based on genomes includes the Viridiplantae, along with...

included only flowering plants possessing seeds enclosed in capsules, distinguished from his Gymnospermae, which were flowering plants with achenial or...

history of flowering plants records the development of flowers and other distinctive structures of the angiosperms, now the dominant group of plants on land...

known hermaphroditic species among mammals or birds. About 94% of flowering plant species are either hermaphroditic (all flowers produce both male and...

000 species of land plants, including some 391,000 species of vascular plants (of which approximately 369,000 are flowering plants) and approximately 20...

angiosperms have as few as three cells in each pollen grain. Flowering plants are the dominant plant form on land: 168, 173  and they reproduce either sexually...

parasitic plants in approximately 20 families of flowering plants are known. There is a wide range of effects that may occur to a host plant due to the...

A biennial plant is a flowering plant that, generally in a temperate climate, takes two years to complete its biological life cycle. In its first year...

bryophylla is the highest flowering plant in the world, occurring as high as 6,180 m (20,280 ft). To survive, alpine plants are adapted to the conditions...

exceeding two years in the botanical world. Perennials (especially small flowering plants) that grow and bloom over the spring and summer, die back every autumn...

in animal evolution but, with plants, it is often overlooked because many plants are hermaphrodites. Flowering plants show many characteristics that...

plants, such as wood formation. Biennial plant – Flowering plant that takes two years to complete its biological life cycle Perennial plant – Plant that...

between flowering plants and insects in On the Origin of Species (1859). Although he did not use the word coevolution, he suggested how plants and insects...

more rarely, dicotyls), are one of the two groups into which all the flowering plants (angiosperms) were formerly divided. The name refers to one of the...

amber-colored essential oil derived from Nardostachys jatamansi, a flowering plant in the honeysuckle family which grows in the Himalayas of Nepal, China...

division of plants, with upwards of 400,000 species. For two-dimensional area, the largest known clonal flowering plant, and indeed largest plant and organism...

development of the embryonic plant. The flowers of flowering plants contain their sexual organs. Most flowering plants are hermaphroditic, with both...

eventually to the complex seed-bearing gymnosperms and angiosperms (flowering plants) of today. While many of the earliest groups continue to thrive, as...

Acanthus is a genus of about 30 species of flowering plants in the family Acanthaceae, native to tropical and warm temperate regions, with the highest...

of perennial, flowering plants in the monocot order Arecales. Their growth form can be climbers, shrubs, tree-like and stemless plants, all commonly known...

through the pollen tube to the ovule where the egg is fertilised. In flowering plants, two sperm cells are released from the pollen tube, and a second fertilisation...

pɛpəˌroʊmiˈɔɪdiːz/), the Chinese money plant, UFO plant, pancake plant, lefse plant or missionary plant, is a species of flowering plant in the nettle family Urticaceae...

Monstera deliciosa, the Swiss cheese plant or split-leaf philodendron is a species of flowering plant native to tropical forests of southern Mexico, south...

Agave americana, commonly known as the century plant, maguey, or American aloe, is a flowering plant species belonging to the family Asparagaceae. It...

Cornus kousa is a small deciduous tree 8–12 m (26–39 ft) tall, in the flowering plant family Cornaceae. Common names include kousa, kousa dogwood, Chinese...

Iris is a flowering plant genus of 310 accepted species with showy flowers. As well as being the scientific name, iris is also widely used as a common...