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	Flower - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		For example, the two subclasses of flowering plants may be distinguished by the number of floral organs in each whorl: dicotyledons typically having 4 or 5 organs (or a multiple of 4 or 5) in each whorl and monocotyledons having three or some multiple of three.
		The flowers would have tended to grow in a spiral pattern, to be bisexual (in plants, this means both male and female parts on the same flower), and to be dominated by the ovary (female part).
		Flowers within art are also representative of the female genitalia, as seen in the works of artists such as Georgia O'Keefe, Imogen Cunningham, Veronica Ruiz de Velasco, and Judy Chicago, and in fact in oriental and western classical art.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Flowers (2575 words)

	Encyclopedia
		Composites are particularly well adapted to semiarid parts of tropical and subtropical regions, to arctic and alpine tundra, and to temperate regions.
		FLOWER,) are always grouped into an inflorescence (flower cluster) called the head, or capitulum, which resembles and functions as a single flower.
		Although the flowering heads of composites are fundamentally similar, variation in their structure, particularly in the corolla, accounts for much diversity.
	www.history.com /encyclopedia.do?vendorId=FWNE.fw..co190100.a#FWNE.fw..co190100.a (999 words)

	Composite Flowers
		Composite flower heads bear scale-like bracts, which are usually green and overlapping, like the ones at the right.
		When you begin trying to figure out what kind of composite flower you have, the first thing you should notice is how the heads are configured, in terms of disk and ray flowers.
		Many composite flowers have no bracts at all, and the vast majority of the ones who do possess bracts have bracts that are much smaller, paler and more inconspicuous than the one at the right.
	www.backyardnature.net /fl_comps.htm (1220 words)

	sunflower - Search Results - MSN Encarta
		Sunflower, common name for annual and perennial herbs of a genus of the family of composite flowers.
		Composite Flowers, common name for one of the largest families of flowering plants, with more than 20,000 species.
		- tall plant with yellow-rayed flowers: a tall annual plant grown commercially for its edible seeds and the oil extracted from them.
	ca.encarta.msn.com /sunflower.html (124 words)

	Plant Breeding as a Hobby
		The reproductive organs of the flower are the stamen and pistil (Fig.
		The parent flower that furnishes the pollen is called the pollen parent; the one that bears the seed is called the seed parent.
		Flowers that are to be self-pollinated should likewise be protected from foreign pollen by either closing or covering the flower.
	www.ag.uiuc.edu /~vista/html_pubs/PLBREED/pl_breed.html (6847 words)

	Composite/Daisy Family (Asteraceae)
		The daisy, or composite, family is the second largest family of flowering plants, with over 20,000 species worldwide.
		Composite flowers are generally yellow, bluish-purple, orange, white, or pink.
		The flowers lining the outer margin — called ray flowers — each have a single, overdeveloped petal; it is these unusually large petals that form the outer ring of what appears to be the "petals" of a single large "flower".
	www.arctic.uoguelph.ca /cpl/organisms/plants/Terrestrial/composites.htm (650 words)

	Composite Flowers - Search Results - MSN Encarta
		Composite Flowers, characteristic of one of the largest families of flowering plants, the daisy family, with more than 20,000 species.
		The flower of the composite (a daisy, for example) is not a flower at all but a mass of many small flowers or...
		Yarrow, common name for a perennial herb, of the family of composite flowers, known also as milfoil.
	uk.encarta.msn.com /Composite_Flowers.html (117 words)

	Case 4 - Background Information
		Flowers such as iris, tulip, lilies, amaryllis, snapdragon, and gladiolus are best to use for the dissection part of the lesson.
		Flowers of a sunflower, chrysanthemum, dandelion, and daisy are members of this group.
		Some flowers may also be open at specific times of the day to take advantage of certain pollinators that prefer to work during specific hours.
	www.urbanext.uiuc.edu /gpe/tg/c4-background.html (1079 words)

	Composite - Search Results - MSN Encarta
		- with complex flower heads: describes any plant belonging to a large family that has flower heads resembling a single flower but composed of many smaller flowers.
		Composite Material, substance that is made up of a combination of two or more different materials.
		Stratovolcano, also called composite volcano, a volcanic mountain shaped like a cone.
	ca.encarta.msn.com /Composite.html (150 words)

	Wild Flowers - Composite Family
		It is only when we study flowers with reference to their motives and methods that we understand why one is abundant and another rare.
		Nowadays we are satisfied merely to admire the feathery masses of lace-like foliage formed by young plants, to whiff the wholesome, nutty, autumnal odor of its flowers, or to wonder at the marvellous scheme it employs to overrun the earth.
		Because daisies are among the most conspicuous of flowers, and have facilitated dining for their visitors by offering them countless cups of refreshment that may be drained with a minimum loss of time, almost every insect on wings alights on them sooner or later.
	www.oldandsold.com /articles06/wf-54.shtml (6934 words)

	Beauty - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The image of the young woman is a classical symbol of human beauty, and a dominant theme in art.
		In the 1990 study by Langlois and Roggmann it was found that an extremely average face was considered the most attractive by the study group.
		A composite face (one of both sexes) was generated by combining all of the most common features from a group of photographs.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Beauty (1943 words)

	Oxeye Daisy (Leucanthemum vulgare) Species Page
		Composite flower heads are positioned singularly atop the terminal shoot and look typically daisy-like, having a yellow central disk surrounded by white petal-like rays.
		This wildflower has two types of leaves: short leaves that are positioned along the length of the stem and long basal leaves.
		The composite flowers of the oxeye daisy are comprised of a yellow, depressed central disk of female and male rayless flowers surrounded by female flowers having short, petal-like, white rays.
	www.bio.brandeis.edu /fieldbio/Wildflowers_Kimonis_Kramer/PAGES/OXEYEDAISY_PAGE_FINAL.html (178 words)

	Please Eat the Daisies and Other Edible Flowers
		Flowers are a delicious companion to many foods including beans, corn dishes, sautéed or stuffed mushrooms, or pesto sauce.
		The flowers tend to have a stronger flavor than the leaves and the young-developing seed heads are even stronger.
		To hasten drying, you may place the candied flowers in an oven with a pilot light overnight, or in an oven set at 150 degrees to 200 degrees F with the door ajar for a few hours.
	www.phancypages.com /newsletter/Znewsletter2695.htm (5057 words)

	Wildflowers of Western Pennsylvania: Family (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		This is the largest and youngest of all the flower families.
		The typical composite is radially symmetrical and has tiny tubular flowers in a central disc, surrounded by flat ray flowers.
		The dandelion-like group plants also have yellow flowers, but both the plants and the flowers tend to be smaller.
	www.westernpawildflowers.com /html/Family.asp?FID=116 (550 words)

	Asteraceae: Wildflowers of the Aster/Sunflower Family (Composite/Compositae). Pictures and help with wildflower ...
		Look closely at the big "petals" that ring the outside of the flower head, and you will see that each petal is also a flower, called a "ray flower", with it's petals fused together and hanging to one side.
		Even the common yarrow, with its tiny flower heads, usually has a dozen or more nearly microscopic flowers inside each head, and the inside of a sagebrush flower head is even smaller.
		The Asters are the largest family of flowering plants in the northern latitudes, with 920 genera and 19,000 species found worldwide, including 346 genera and 2,687 species in the U.S. and Canada.
	www.wildflowers-and-weeds.com /Plant_Families/Asteraceae.htm (1332 words)

	Special Words for Dealing with Flowers
		composite: a term referring to an organ or structure that looks like one large thing, but actually is composed of several distinct parts, as among blossoms of the Composite Family
		diadelphous: describing a flower's cluster of stamens in which the stamens are held in two bundles or clusters, as in many legumes in which there are nine stamens in one bundle and one stamen in the second (as opposed to monadelphous)
		pappus: on composite flowers, special appendages borne on the ovary and persisting in the fruit, and appearing in a variety of shapes, as plumose (feather-like), bristles, scales, crowns, etc.
	www.backyardnature.net /fl_words.htm (1061 words)

	Scripps Howard News Service
		The daisy flower on any plant is your clue that it belongs in the composite family, renamed Asteraaceae after a most famous group of daisies, the asters.
		Composites are always at the end, the most evolved and complex of all blossoms.
		This process is designed to extend blooming as long as possible, which exposes the composite flowers to the widest range of pollens.
	www.shns.com /shns/g_index2.cfm?action=detail&pk=YARDSMART-HOME-06-19-06 (655 words)

	Science Lesson: Flowers: Form and Function
		As the flower is dissected, students determine the function of each part by observing the form.
		While students are describing the flower, have a student write the observations on the board or overhead.
		Students observe their own flower, describing it and drawing it in their notebooks, labeling the parts as they are identified.
	pulse.pharmacy.arizona.edu /ggg/dawn_new/science/flowers_form.html (790 words)

	Iron Weed
		This native perennial plant is 3-6' tall and unbranched, except for the flowering stalks of the inflorescence.
		At the apex of the plant, the inflorescence is a corymb of numerous rayless composite flowers.
		The flowers are capable of self-pollination in the absence of these insects.
	www2.ic.edu /prairie/iron_weed.htm (563 words)

	Sunflower, Wild (Helianthus spp.) - Wild Flowers of Sleepy Hollow Lake - An All Creatures Photo Gallery - creation, ...
		Composite flowers are not single flowers, but a composite or grouping of many flowers to make what would appear to be a single larger flower.
		These also have fewer than 10 ray flowers, which the literature stated was the minimum number.
		One reference indicated that the wild sunflower was considered sacred, as it was an earthly symbol of the sun.
	www.all-creatures.org /picb/wfshl-sunflower-wild.html (1379 words)

	The Hermit's Grove
		The leaves are palmate, with five to seven leaflets (three on the upper leaves), numerous, on long thin petioles with acute stipules at the base, linear-lanceolate, tapering at both ends, the margins sharply serrate, smooth and dark green on the upper surface, lighter and downy on the under one.
		The small flowers are unisexual, the male having five almost separate, downy, pale yellowish segments, and the female a single, hairy, glandular, five-veined leaf enclosing the ovary in a sheath.
		Lower grades of Indian hemp consist of flowering tops and are known under different names: in India as ganja, in North Africa as kief, in South and East Africa as dagga, in South America and the United States as marihuana.
	www.thehermitsgrove.org /monographs.html (6659 words)

	Horseweed
		When mature, several flowering stems appear at the apex, which branch frequently and spread upward and outward, terminating in a multitude of tiny composite flowers.
		These composite flowers are individually less than 1/8" across, but subtended by smooth green bracts that are somewhat longer.
		In each composite flower, there are numerous yellow disk florets in the center, which are surrounded by tiny white ray florets that remain erect, rather than spreading outward.
	www.illinoiswildflowers.info /weeds/plants/horseweed.htm (540 words)

	Aster (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		It is not these flowers but the leaves that have the incredible and highly unusual fragrance of peppermint.
		Asters (from the Greek and Latin meaning star, as well as Chrysanthemums, are called "composite flowers" for they appear to be one large flower but are actually comprised of many small flowers.
		The central disk of a small tubular flower is surrounded by the more colorful and showy ray flowers.
	www.flowerscentgardens.com /aster.htm (263 words)

	Edible Flowers - Cornflower
		Only the petals of these composite flowers are edible.
		The pollen of composite flowers is highly allergenic and may cause reactions in sensitive individuals.
		Sufferers of asthma, ragweed, and hayfever should not consume composite flowers, and may have extreme allergies to ingesting any flowers at all.
	www.culinarycafe.com /Flowers/Cornflower.html (54 words)

	Glossary
		Composite flowers are really two kinds of flowers in one.
		Composite flowers have floral heads that are made up of many, sometimes hundreds, of disk flowers.
		To the right, the white petals on the Shasta Daisy are ray flowers, which encircle the floral head made up of yellow disk flowers in the center.
	members.cox.net /tunias_travels/Glossary.htm (1364 words)

	NYS Horticulture Study Guide For Youth
		Chrysanthemum is Greek for "gold flower." The Chrysanthemums are a large group of popular garden flowers characterized by a distinct odor, alternating, lobed leaves, and composite flowers.
		It comes in yellow, red, pink, lilac, and white, and the flowers range from 1 to 12 inches.
		The garden chrysanthemum is very popular; it is a perennial used as a border or an edge plant, in a container or a pot, or for cut flowers.
	www.hort.cornell.edu /4hplants/Flowers/Chrysanthemum.html (251 words)

	Notes about the terminology used (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Composite flowers are found in the Aster/Sunflower family and are made up of two types of flowers.
		Irregular flowers may a mirror plane but tend to have lobes of different length.
		The flowers are individual or possibly a few together.
	home.steuber.com /sarah/flwrs/Notes.html (289 words)

	Garden Flower Botany Primer: Roots, Shoots, and Flowers
		The key flower parts are the petals, which together form the "corolla." These often have other structures on the outside, like petals but less showy, called "bracts." Together they are called the "calyx." "Stamens" are the male parts producing the pollen.
		Flowers are either single (like most roses), or grouped together into "inflorescences" as with most garden flowers.
		Many of our garden flowers are in the aster family, characterized by "composite" flowers--those with two actual flower types.
	pss.uvm.edu /ppp/articles/flowers.htm (615 words)

	Springtime DYC: Small's Ragwort, Senecio smallii (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Composite flowers ARE difficult to identify--especially in late summer when there are so many that look so much alike--so we were grateful we had only a few springtime species to choose from when trying to identify a DYC this week at
		The disk flowers begin to open from the perimeter, the yelllow-orange bumps at the disk's center being flowers that are not quite ready to produce either nectar or pollen.
		Although some composites are annuals or biennials, Small's Ragwort is a perennial that, once it has established a strong root network, sprouts year after year--or at least does so unless the open area in which it grows is overtaken by shrubs or trees through vegetative succession.
	www.hiltonpond.org /ThisWeek060501.html (1277 words)

	Achene: Free Encyclopedia Articles at Questia.com Online Library
		Some indehiscent fruits are achene of Buttercup and Compositae family...bases: flower 1 to 11/2 inches broad; achene with a long beak a.
		Fertile flowers solitary under...Plant not parasitic; fruit a nut or an achene.
		Indehiscent fruits include the single-seeded achene of the buttercup and the composite flowers; the caryopsis...than the ovary; the strawberry is actually a number of tiny achenes (miscalled seeds) outside a central pulpy pith that is the...
	www.questia.com /library/encyclopedia/achene.jsp?l=A&p=1 (758 words)

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