The story for kids
A flower garden. Flowers are pretty and smell sweet so that bees and butterflies will come to them. Bees carry pollen from flower to flower, and that's how seeds are made. Tap any flower, and it will come to you.
Facts
- Flowers are pretty and smell sweet so that bees and butterflies will visit them.
- Bees carry pollen from flower to flower, and that is how seeds are made.
- Tap any flower, and it will come to you.
Numbers
- Flowering plants
- ~300,000 species
- Biggest flower
- Rafflesia: ~1 m
For grown-ups
Flowering plants make up most of Earth's plants, with about three hundred thousand species. The flower is the reproductive organ: its colour, scent and nectar attract pollinators such as bees, butterflies and birds. After pollination, seeds develop inside the ovary, and the ovary becomes the fruit.