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Sprengel's book introduced a functional view, which would today be called ecology, and provided evidence that pollination was an organised process in which insects acted as "living brushes" in a symbiotic relationship for the teleological purpose of fertilising the flowers. His discovery enabled him to understand the construction and ...
It took six years before Sprengel published the work of his own research. The book was based on the studies of 461 plants, presenting some 25 copperplate engravings based on his own drawings. [1] Sprengel identified that flowers were essentially organs adapted in their structures to attract insects, which events aided in pollinating the plant.
An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon. Mansfield Centre, Connecticut: Martino Fine Books. ISBN 978-1-61427-397-4. Available online at the Perseus Digital Library. Quattrocchi, Umberto (2000). CRC World Dictionary of Plant Names, Volume I, A–C. Boca Raton, Florida: CRC Press. ISBN 978-0-8493-2675-2
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The A to Z of Plant Names: A Quick Reference Guide to 4000 Garden Plants. Portland, Oregon: Timber Press. ISBN 978-1-60469-196-2. Cullen, Katherine E. (2006). Biology: The People Behind the Science. New York, New York: Infobase Publishing. ISBN 978-0-8160-7221-7. POWO (2019). "Plants of the World Online". London: Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
Cover of Sprengel's 1793 book. The beginnings of the field of floral biology are generally traced to Christian Konrad Sprengel's Entdeckte Geheimniss der Natur im Bau in der Befruchtung der Blumen (The Secret of Nature in the Form and Fertilization of Flowers Discovered) (1793). [3]
Red Cardinal Flower, Red Lobelia, Cardinal Lobelia, Slinkweed, Cardinal Flower, Scarlet Lobelia, Great Lobelia, or Indian Tobacco Lycopus americanus: Water Horehound Maianthemum racemosum: Treacleberry or Feathery False Lily of the Valley Micranthes micranthidifolia: Lettuceleaf Saxifrag, Branch Lettuce, or Brook Lettuce Mitchella repens
The fossil history of flowering plants records the development of flowers and other distinctive structures of the angiosperms, now the dominant group of plants on land.The history is controversial as flowering plants appear in great diversity in the Cretaceous, with scanty and debatable records before that, creating a puzzle for evolutionary biologists that Charles Darwin named an "abominable ...