That depends on the amount and intensity of the wind in your area. If you live in a place with no wind, expect to see the seeds just falling to the ground. However, in a hurricane you may find seeds miles away.
Another name for dandelion seeds is "dandelion clocks" due to their resemblance to a clock face when they disperse in the wind.
The weed you are referring to is likely the dandelion (Taraxacum officinale). Dandelion seeds have white fluffy structures called pappus that allow them to be carried by the wind, helping with seed dispersal.
Plants cannot fly on their own. They rely on other mechanisms like wind, water, animals, or humans to disperse their seeds for reproduction.
Dandelions spread their seeds through the wind. When a dandelion flower goes to seed, it forms a fluffy white parachute-like structure called a "pappus" that easily catches the wind and carries the seeds away from the parent plant to new locations.
How does the structure of the dandelion fruit and seed helps a dandelion spread its seeds? The Light weight structure of the fruit causes wind to move it easily, there fore helping its seed spread.
Dandelion seeds have adapted to be spread far and wide by the wind.
Their seeds can, on the wind like a dandelion seed.
Dandelion seeds are wind dispersed
many plants use wind to help them. with the dandelion the seeds cleverly use wind power, this helps spread the seeds as far away as possible from the parent plant.
Paper aeroplanes can fly but some people say that they glide. Helicopter seeds fly if you throw them, along with dandelion seeds. Birds fly and so do insects with wings like bees, flys, mosquitoes etc.
They are caught by even the slightest breeze - making them travel far from the parent plant.
Two examples are the fluffy seeds of the dandelion and the rose-bay willow herb blowing far and wide on the wind.
Another name for dandelion seeds is "dandelion clocks" due to their resemblance to a clock face when they disperse in the wind.
The seed is very small and light, and it is attached to a cotton like fruit that can be caught by the wind and carried a long distance from the parent plant. By this method, a dandelion can spread its offspring very rapidly to far and wide places.
The weed you are referring to is likely the dandelion (Taraxacum officinale). Dandelion seeds have white fluffy structures called pappus that allow them to be carried by the wind, helping with seed dispersal.
Plants cannot fly on their own. They rely on other mechanisms like wind, water, animals, or humans to disperse their seeds for reproduction.
Dandelions spread their seeds through the wind. When a dandelion flower goes to seed, it forms a fluffy white parachute-like structure called a "pappus" that easily catches the wind and carries the seeds away from the parent plant to new locations.