Plant Vocabulary

A type of vascular plant that produces flowers in order to reproduce. 

• fruit plant
• fragile plant
• flowering plant
• fake plant

A male or female plant that do not produce fruit or flowers and have needles for leaves.

• cauliflower 
• cabbage 
• crucifer
• cone

A fine powdery substance from the male part of a flower or from a male cone that can fertilize the female ovule. It is transported by the wind, insects, or other animals. 

• corn starch
• pollen
• pixie dust
• paprika

Non-flowering plants produce a tiny organism that is so small and light, they can be dispersed by the wind to new locations where they can grow into a new plant.

• spore
• sponge
• seed
• spruce

A modified leaf that surround the reproductive parts of flowers. They are often brightly colored or unusually shaped to attract pollinators-insects, bugs, and birds.

• sepal
• pistil
• petal
• stamen

A pollen-producing male reproductive organ of a flower that has pollen in it.

• stoma
• stable
• sepal
• stamen

The female reproductive part of a flower, centrally located, typically consists of a swollen base, the ovary, which contains the potential seeds and collects pollen on its sticky surface.

• pistil
• pickle
• petal
• prance

The process by which a plant grows from a seed.

• fertilization
• reproduction
• pollination
• germination

the transfer of pollen from a stamen to a pistil.

• germination
• fertilization
• pollination
• reproduction

In order for this to occur In flowering plants, insects or other animals must transport the pollen to the pistil.

• germination
• fertilization
• reproduction
• pollination