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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.
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∙ 12y ago
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∙ 12y agoThe bright colours of flowers are to attract insects to pollinate them, and the nectar they give is a reward for the pollination.
Wind pollinated and water pollinated plants have no need to attract insects and no need to reward them so they don't need brightly coloured flowers and don't need to give nectar
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∙ 13y agoThey do not require to attract insects or other pollinators as the wind does the job.
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∙ 7y agoThey have no need to attract pollinating insects, as they rely solely on wind pollination. So they don't bother to produce coloured flowers, scent or nectar.
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∙ 6y agoWind pollinated plants don't need to attract pollinating insects. So colour and nectar is not needed.
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The male structure of the flower?
Flowers are the plant's reproductive structures. Angiosperms are types of plants that bear fruits and flowers. Flowers are usually both male and female, and are brightly colored to attract insects to help them carry pollen used for sexual reproduction. Not all flowers are colorful, though. These flowers usually use the wind for pollination. By alex
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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.
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Insects.
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The male structure of the flower?
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