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Facts about Prairie Flowers

Use the underlined sites to find the answers to the questions.


1. What are the characteristics of conspicuous flowers?

2. What are the characteristics of inconspicuous flowers?

3. Conspicuous flowers have open faced _______ and ______?

4. What is the definition of a "pea" flower?

5. Check examples of the "pea" flower with more than five leaflets?

Plume dalea Low milkvetch Rusty lupine Silktop dalea

6. Inconspicuous flowers are found in two types of clusters.  What are they?

7. Which of the following is an example of a round cluster flower?

Nettle leaf noseburn  White sagebrush  Toothed spurge

8. Describe the Woolly Indianwheat?


Build a Prairie Activity



Created by Barb Thorson, ISS
North Carolina Standard Course of Study
Science
Grades:  5
Goal: 1. The learner will build an understanding of the interdependence of plants and animals.