How Do Plants Spread Their Seeds?
The Basic Plan jQuery(document).ready(function(){ jQuery(‘#jsArticleStep1 span.image a:first’).attr(‘href’,’http://i.ehow.com/images/a05/69/1e/do-plants-spread-seeds-1.1-800X800.jpg’); }); Although the plant is dead, seeds from this dandelion will ride the wind to neighboring yards. Every fall, billions of seeds are released by millions of plants to become future trees, flowers, vegetables and weeds. Like most children, seeds move away from home. But they do it at an embryonic stage and appear to depend on apparently random methods to transport them far enough away from the parent plant to find fresh ground where their growth will not compete with their parents’ welfare. Humans harvest only a bit of this bounty. Millions of “wild” seeds survive wintry blasts, rocky landings and climatological variations to end up in new places where they can germinate, bear fruit and continue their species. Methods of dispersal range from the use of animals and weather to dynamic design and disasters.
