Quakgrass,Burdock and Foxtail Barley
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Other plants have fruits with hooks
Spines and hooks stick the seeds to an animal's coat as it brushes past. The seeds are then brushed off elsewhere. Examples of this include teasels and goose grass.
Burdock seeds are dispersed by animal fur. These burdock seeds have little hooks on them which allows them to "catch" onto the fur.
Burdock seeds are dispersed by animal fur. These burdock seeds have little hooks on them which allows them to "catch" onto the fur.
This is so the plants seeds can hook on to something like a humans clothes or an animals fur and get transported to another area where they can start to grow.
when a hairy animal is moving... burdock is very sticky type and it sticks on
its hooks help it attach to an animal which carries it away from the parent plant
because 1.for avoiding over crowding 2.to eliminate in competitons 3.so that seeds can grow in other places that need plants 4.for the continuation of plants and species life
The grapple fruit disperses it seeds because the seed capsules have hooks that get attached to the feet of animals that pass by the plant. In this manner, the animals trod on the seeds and carry them to distant and different geographical locations.
Xanthium has hairy and seeds with hooks that get easily stuck in the fur and hide of animals and get dispersed far off places . They also get dispersed by wind . When climatic conditions are favourable , they burst open by the explosive mechanism and are transported far off places and germinate into new plants.
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