Everybody loves pretty flowers - even bugs and birds! Flowers aren’t just nice to look
at,
they also have an important function. Flowers help all kinds of plants reproduce by making
seeds that will grow up into new plants.
Did you know that vegetable plants, grasses and even trees all have flowers? Not all flowers
are colorful. Some look like leaves. Others are so tiny they are hard to see.
Bees use the nectar they collect from flowers to make honey.
Flowers have long been admired and used by humans to beautify their environment
but also as objects of romance, ritual, medicine and as a source of food