A flower is part of how many plants make new plants. Its shapes, colors, and scents can help attract animals that carry pollen.
Fun fact: Some grass flowers rely on wind to carry their pollen.
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Why Do Flowers Exist?
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Pollen is made by one part of a flower. Wind or an animal may carry it to the pollen-receiving part of a flower of the same kind.
Fun fact: The pollen-receiving part of a flower is called the stigma.
After pollination, a pollen grain can help fertilize an ovule inside the flower. A fertilized ovule can develop into a seed. Pollen grains do not simply join together to become seeds.
Fun fact: The flower's ovary holds its ovules.
Some flowers later grow into fruits that protect or carry their seeds. When a seed lands where it can grow, the plant's story begins again.
Fun fact: Seeds can wait until conditions are right before they sprout.