1/20
flowering plants
Name | Mastery | Learn | Test | Matching | Spaced | Call with Kai | Chat |
|---|
No analytics yet
Send a link to your students to track their progress
make up 80% of
extant plants
growth forms
vines are the fine line between woody plants and herbaceous plants

diversity of angiosperms
vines
epiphytes (growing on other plants)
succulents
cacti and succulents
characteristics
flowers and fruits
little or no chlorophyll
2 major clades
eudicots
monocots
casal angiosperms
Amborella
only living species
Magnoliids


monocots vs eudicots

how many flower parts in monocots
3s

how many flower parts in eudicots
4 or 5s

how many cotyledons in monocots
1

how many cotyledons in eudicots
2

monocot leaf venation
parallel

eudicot leaf venation
net-like

monocot vascular stem bundle?
scattered

eudicot vascular stem bundle?
ring

monocot true secondary growth w/ vascular cambium?
rare
eudicot true secondary growth w/ vascular cambium?
commonly present
monocot roots
fibrous
hard to get out of the ground
lots of little fragile roots

eudicot roots
taproot
main stem is the root and easy to get out in tact
the veg is the root

leaf margins

leaf venation


leaf shape and arrangement
