So birds and bees will notice them and sip their nectar. (Nectar is a sweet liquid found inside flowers. Bees make honey out of it.) While creatures are drinking the nectar, pollen from the flower sticks to them. Then they carry the pollen from flower to flower. The pollen then goes inside each flower to make seeds.
Don't bee funny
What did the bee say to the flower?
"Hello, honey!"
Night flowers
Some plants have flowers that open only at night. These flowers are usually a pale color and have a strong smell. This is so creatures that are awaken at night -like bats and moths - can find them.
Stink bomb
The biggest and smelliest flower in the world is the rafflesia. It's as big as a truck tire. It smells like rotting meat. Flies love it -yum, yum!
Flowery facts
- The largest rose tree in the world is in Tombstone, Arizona. Its trunk is 40 inches thick, and it is nine feet tall.
- The American ragweed plant can make eight billion pollen grains in five hours.
