Lab 2 - Flowering Plants Observations · iNaturalist Luxembourg

I choose to locate Devil's Beggarticks on the phylogeny tree. It was under All Life, Eukaryotes, Plants, Flowering Plants, and then the Daisy Family. Going further into the phylogeny tree it was under the Asteroideae, Heliantheae alliance, Coreopsideae, and then under Spanish Needles, next to Viper Beggarticks.
An adaptation that all of the species in our group project had was bright attractive colors. The pigments can help attract flying pollinators like insects. Attracting pollinators for pollination is necessary for the flowering plant to reproduce (produce seeds).
The Borage flowering plants have interesting adaptations. Flowers are along scorpioid cymes where multiple flowers are on on side of a curved stem. This allows the plant to have a higher rate of self-pollination/self-seeding. Also, it has an indeterminate growth habit, which means the main stem continues to elongate indefinitely allowing for easy spreading.

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Lab 2 - Flowering Plants Observations