Seed Containers

I learned that another way to classify plants is if they have seeds or don't have seeds. If they make seeds, they are called angiosperms or gymnosperms. Gymnosperms have pinecones. Sperms means seed. Angio means container. Angiosperms have seed containers. First, we will study angiosperms.

Some examples of seed containers are fruit, nuts and flowers. How a seed container gets created is by a flower. When all the nectar is sucked out of a flower, the petals dry up and fall off. Then, it starts to get fat and turns into something like an apple or a walnut.

Here are some angiosperms we found around our house.

This is a rosemary flower.



This is a flower from the trumpet vine near our front door. The top is a flower, the next you see the petals drying up. Then on the bottom, you see the seed pod forming. All of these are happening at the same time!


A samara seed has a wing so it flys and comes off trees.


Peter drew this picture of some angiosperms.