Whats the Difference Between Monocot & Dicot Leaves?
Elsewhere in this site we see that all members of the class of flowering plants belong to one of two subclasses: They’re either monocots or dicots. In our flower section we have a special page showing the difference between monocot and dicot flowers, which are profound. Also big differences distinguish the leaves of most monocots and dicots. Look: • Dicots include nearly all our trees, bushes, vegetable-garden plants (not corn), and most of our wildflowers (not irises and lilies). Dicot leaves are usually net-veined, as in the close-up of the veins in a wild grape leaf at the right. Notice how the larger veins are thicker and straighter, but as veins get smaller and smaller, they tend to snake around. • Monocots include all grasses and glasslike plants, plus lilies, irises, amaryllises, and some other plant types. Usually, but not always, monocots possessparallel-veined leaves, as typified in the simple blade of fescue grass shown at the right. One example of a monocot which does not h
