Botany · Ch 3 — Vegetative Morphology
Parts of a flowering plant
Parts of a flowering plant
Flowering plants (angiosperms, or Magnoliophytes) are sporophytes whose body is organised into an underground root system and an aerial shoot system. The shoot system carries the stem, its branches and the leaves, while the root system consists of the root and its lateral (secondary) branches. As the chapter's diagram shows, the shoot bears the bud, stem, leaf and flower, while the root system consists of the primary root together with the secondary roots that branch from it. This root-shoot organisa …
What this figure shows. A labelled diagram of a flowering plant showing the plumule-derived shoot system rising above ground and the radicle-derived root system below. Labelled parts: Bud, Stem, Leaf and Flower on the aerial Shoot; and Primary root with its branching Secondary roots making up the underground Root. The diagram illustrates that the shoot bears the bud, stem, leaf and flower, while the root system consists of the primary …