3. What are the special features of wind-pollinated flowers?
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They generally have long anthers protruding out of the flower so that pollen grains may get blown off easily. They produce a large quantity of pollen. The pollen grains are light so that they are easily carried away
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Wind-pollinated flowers are typically:
- No bright colors, special odors, or nectar Small
- Most have no petals
- Stamens and stigmas exposed to air currents
- Large amount of pollen
- Pollen smooth, light, easily airborne
- Stigma feathery to catch pollen from wind
- May have staminate and pistillate flowers, may be monoecious or dioecious
- Usually single-seeded fruits, such as oak, grass, birch, poplar, hazel, dock, cat-tail, plantain, and papyrus
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