Blog
Save
Email
Print
ShareThe flowering plants (also called angiosperms) are the dominant and most familiar group of land plants.
The flowering plants and the gymnosperms comprise the two groups in the seed plants.
The flowers of flowering plants are the most remarkable feature that distinguishes them from other seed plants.
Flowers initiated the differences between gymnosperms and angiosperms by broadening the scope of evolutionary relationships and niches open to flowering plants, allowing them to eventually dominate terrestrial ecosystems.
The number of species of flowering plants is estimated to be in the range of 250,000 to 400,000.
For more information about the topic Flowering plant, read the full article at Wikipedia.org, or see the following related articles:
Gymnosperm Plants — Gymnosperms (Gymnospermae) are a group of seed-bearing plants with ovules borne on the edge or blade of an open sporophyll, the sporophylls usually ... > read more
Cotyledon — A cotyledon is a significant part of the embryo within the seed of a plant. Upon germination, the cotyledon usually becomes the embryonic first ... > read more
Plant sexuality — Plant sexuality deals with the wide variety of sexual reproduction systems found across the plant kingdom. This article describes morphological ... > read more
Purple loosestrife — Purple loosestrife is a semi-aquatic herbaceous plant belonging to the loosestrife family, Lythraceae, native to the wetlands of Eurasia. It is a ... > read more
Cashew — The Cashew is a tree in the flowering plant family Anacardiaceae. The plant is native to northeastern Brazil, where it is called by its Portuguese ... > read more
Asteraceae — The family Asteraceae or, alternatively, family Compositae, known as the aster, daisy or sunflower family, is a taxon of dicotyledonous flowering ... > read more
Opium poppy — The opium poppy, Papaver somniferum, is the type of poppy from which opium and all refined opiates such as morphine (up to 20%), thebaine (5%), ... > read more
Seed predation — Seed predation includes any process inflicted on a plant’s seeds by an animal that results in the inviability of the seed. Generally this ... > read more
Herbivore — A herbivore is often defined as any organism that eats only plants. By that definition, many fungi, some bacteria, many animals, about 1% of ... > read more
Water hyacinth — The seven species of water hyacinths comprise the genus Eichhornia of free-floating perennial aquatic plants native to tropical South America. One ... > read moreRecommend this page on Facebook, Twitter,
and Google +1:
Other bookmarking and sharing tools:
more 