Steelhead Park Plant Pattern: Monocuts and Dicots

When we go to the Steelhead Park, plants are not that many, all the plants we found are flowering plants which belong to the phylum Magnoliophyta. However, the interesting pattern is that if I look at the class level, the plants we have found all belong to either Monocots (Class Liliopsida) or Dicots (Class Magnoliopsida). These are the only type of class we found around the river. All dicots and monocots are flowering plants, and so are descended from flower-producing plants. However, the flowers are not always large and showy the way we expect flowers to be. Oaks, maples, and sycamore are all dicot trees, but they do not produce obvious flowers. Grasses and cattails are monocots whose flowers are often overlooked because they do not have sepals or petals. Monocots also exhibit a wide range of growth forms. Growth form, or more technically habit, refers to the overall architecture of a plant, whether it grows upright from a trunk as do trees, or creeps along the ground like a vine, or any number of other possibilities. Monocots have evolved tree-like growth forms in which the leaves attach only at the base of the plant. These include the massive agaves as well as bananas and the so-called traveller's palm. In these cases, the leaves may occur only near the base of the plant, forming a rosette, or they may wrap around the stem, lending it support, as in bananas.
Refer to:
Monocots versus Dicots. (n.d.). Retrieved December 09, 2017, from http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/glossary/gloss8/monocotdicot.html
Monocots: More on Morphology. (n.d.). Retrieved December 09, 2017, from http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/monocots/monocotmm.html

Publicado el diciembre 10, 2017 01:20 MAÑANA por zlu1