6.L.1.1 Parts of a Flower Vocabulary

part of a flower, often colored to attract pollinators.

• fruit

• sepals

• ovules

• petal

can be defined as the fusion of the male gametes (pollen) with the female gametes (ovum) to form a diploid zygote (fertilized egg)

• fertilization

• reproduction

• pollination

• seed production

part of the ovary that is the female gametophyte; becomes the seed after fertilization. 

• stamen

• pollination

• ovules

• stigma

the organ that holds the plant upright so the plant can get the sunlight and air it needs.

• stem

• sepals

• cuticle

• anther

the female reproductive part of a flowering plant; stigma, style, and ovary

• stamen

• pistil/carpel

• stigma

• anther

part of flower surrounding the petals

• ovary

• stem

• sepals

• anther

- the part of a flower that receives pollen during pollination and on which the pollen grain germinates

• anther

• stem

• stigma

• petal

process by which organisms give rise to offspring.

• pistil/carpel

• pollination

• reproduction

• stem

the transfer of pollen from the stamen (male) to the stigma (female)

• pollination

• fertilization

• reproduction

• seed production

The enlarged basal portion of the pistil where ovules are produced.

• fertilization

• ovary

• stamen

• cuticle