Backyard Botany Basics

To get started, let's review a few Backyard Botany Basics. In your yard or in the neighborhood are some plants that will help you with a few terms terms. Here are a few!

Open faced flowers. Sepals and/or petals are usually the outer parts.


Open faced heads. Ray flowers and disk flowers (156), or ray flowers (175) or disk flowers (195) are the outer parts of .


71 percent of the flowers in Fred's Flower Finder are in the open faced groups.


Continue to Fred's Flower Finder or to Southwest Kansas Wildflowers Index
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