Flowers for Kids - the bees spread pollen

Flowers

Black-eyed Susan
Black-eyed Susan

The earliest flowers developed about 360 million years ago, in the late Devonian period, as a way to attract insects and get them to help spread the plant's pollen far away from where the plant was growing. Flowers didn't become really common, though, until the Cretaceous period, about

There are many different kinds of flowers.


To find out more about flowers, check out these books from Amazon.com or from your library:

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