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Composite: Many Flowers in One Lesson 1.8

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Composite: Many Flowers

in One

Lesson 1.8

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Composite Family of Plants• The largest family of flowering plants. This is the

family that goldenrod flower belong to.

• God designed the composite to be very showy

plants that would easily attract the insects the

plants depend on for pollination.

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Composite• Composite means “made of many parts”.

• The Flower of a composite is actually not just one

flower but is a hundred flowers, called flower head.

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Composite• Disk • Disk Flowers

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Composite• Ray Flower

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Composite• The Petals help to attract the insect to the flowers.

• Some composite flower does not have both the disk or ray

flower

• Disk Flower Only • Ray Flower Only

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1. Daisy• Come from the Old English Word “day’s eye”

because the blossom close at nigth and opens at

dawn.

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2. Aster• Greek word: Star

• Look like daisy but has more than one flower head

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3. Black Eyed Susan• Are sometimes called the yellow daisies• Looks like a daisy with yellow ray flower and brown disk flower

• Have hairy stems that are difficult to pick

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4. Butter and eggs(toadflax)• Has the color of egg yolks

• The flowers are full of

nectar which attracts

bumblebees

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5. Ironweed• Water loving plant

• Can be troublesome on pasture

grounds as it is not edible by

livestock and spreads quickly.

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6. Cardinal Flower• Grows up to 4 ft tall

• Has brilliant red blossoms which attracts hummingbirds

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5. Goldenrod• Small flowers are arranged in a stalk• The blossoms produces large amounts of pollen and nectar

which attracts all sorts of insects

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Ray Flower

Disk Flower

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8. Jewelweed (touch me not)• Only hummingbirds and bumblebees have long enough

tongues to reach the nectar deep within the flowers of

jewelweeds.

• The ripe seeds of jewelweed will burst open on the slightest

touch

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9. Queen Anne’s Lace• Is a flower that is made up of many cluster of tiny white

flowers with one dark red or purple flower in the center.

• The plant smells like the carrot plant

• In late summer the flowers curl up, giving the plant the name

“bird’s nest”

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10. Chicory• The flowers are bright in the morning but will wilt by

noon. The roots are sometimes ground to make a

coffee like beverage.

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11. Tansy• Looks like daisies that have

had their white rays removed.

• Sometimes called bitter

buttons

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12. Dandelion• It has ray flowers but no disk flowers

• The flower heads open and close every day

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13. Thistle• Its very hard to pick up a thistle flower.

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Painted Lady Butterfly

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Goldfinch

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• The Goldfinch or wild canary

• Name came from it’s yellow color and that it is a

finch(seed eater)

• Has beautiful song and always twitters away

• The female has a duller yellow color

• Eats weed seeds, fruits, aphids and caterpillars

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Homework

Read and record some information regarding our national flower, sampaguita.

Be ready for a short information sharing regarding the flower next week.

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