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Q: Why Wind pollinated flowers are not brightly coloured?
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How do you think flowers are pollinated that are not brightly colored?

The flowers that are not brightly colored either have smell to attract the insects for pollination during night or these are pollinated by wind.


Are all flowers colorful?

Some plants do not have flowers. Nearly all the plants you see around you are flowering plants: trees, bushes, vines, grasses and the "weeds". The flowers may not be big and showy, but they are there if you look for them. When flowering plants spread all over the world, about a hundred million years ago, they pushed aside the ferns and mosses and cone-bearing trees that had covered the planet for many millions of years. Of course, those plants are still here but they no longer have the planet to themselves as they did before the development of the super-successful flowering plants.


Why are wind pollinated flowers not usually brightly colored?

Wind-pollinated plants do not need colorful flowers as they are not pollinated by animals, insects or birds. Since wind-pollinated plants do not need colorful flowers, they might as well put their energy into making their pollen lighter, or more of it.


Why are grass flowers not brightly coloured?

because, they are mainly wind pollinated and don't require bright flowers to attract insects


Is the pride of barbados wind-pollinated or insect-pollinated?

The pride o barbados is insect pollinated because it produces sweet nectar and is brightly coloured which attracts insects.


Difference between animal and wind pollination?

Most grasses and many trees are pollinated by the wind. The pollen carrying organs of these types of plant are exposed so that the wind can distribute their pollen, catkins are a typical wind pollinated structure. Insect pollinated plants need to attract insects to their flowers and they generally have petals and are often brightly coloured.


Is Scent Insect Polinated Flowers or Wind Pollinated Flowers?

wind pollinated


Why is it that some plants have brightly colored flowers and other do not?

to attract bugs to land on it. After landing on the flower pollen will stick to the bugs feet, so then when the bug lands on another flower, it will pollinate it. That is one way of how flowers reproduce sexually.


How are wind pollinated flowers better than animal pollinated flowers?

They are not better they are different.


If some flowers are not pollinated by insects but by wind Do you think such flowers are as attractive as insect-pollinated ones?

Maybe


Are petal wind or insect pollinated?

Petals are both wind pollinated and insect pollinated, not one or the other. Insect pollinated petals are large and brightly colored while wind pollinated petals are small and brown or green in color.


How pampas grass flowers are most likely pollinated?

They are most likely pollinated by wind or pollinators, such as bees.