EKU General Botany Lab

Phylum Magnoliophyta or Anthophyta

Flowering Plants

FLOWER STRUCTURES

It probably will help if you work in small groups, instead of working alone.  Use the dissecting microscopes and dissecting needles.

Examine the flowers on display.   For each flower, determine the following:

•          symmetry of the flower (radial or bilateral)

•          number of sepals

•          number of petals

•          number of stamens

•           ovary position (consult the PowerPoint slides)

•          number of carpels

•          number of stigmas

•          also be able to identify pedicel, bracts, and ovules

How can you tell which flowers are monocots and which flowers are dicots?

If more than two species are available, arrange all the flowers you examined in a sequence from simplest to most complex.