10/20/19 Flower Dissection

This week in science we dissected flowers and plants, I liked the dissecting the flowers more because you could see all the parts inside. In one of the flower that I cut open there was nectar all over petals right by the pistol and in the snap dragon that I dissected you could see the egg sack way at the bottom it was really fun and interesting. When we Dissected the fruits and vegetables they weren’t as interesting because we cut those oped all the time and see the insides, but it was still very fun. We also went on a field trip on Thursday and learned about the process of wine making and his clean they have to be.

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9/29/19 Western Prairie Fringed Orchid

Hi I’m a Western Prairie Fringed Orchid but people call me Orchid Prairie because one, I am an Orchid and two, I like to plant myself in “prairie potholes” which are indents left by glaciers from the ice age about 20,000 years ago. Of my kind there are only about 1,000 of us left. We are mainly threatened by global warming, development, and overgrazing. Yesterday I saw a big tractor and saw that it took out at least two other orchids, it came super close to me but it just grazed the ends of my petals. The sad thing is, that I had just released my sweet fragrance for the hawkmoths to gather my pollen. My sweet fragrance was washed away with the smell of diesel and  there were no other orchids around that I could see. With that being said I wasn’t sure how to reproduce. #habitatloss #notsurewhattodo         

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10/6/19 Cardinal Flower

Hi I am a Cardinal Flower, I am a native plant and most bugs do not collect my pollen because of the long tubes to get to it. We rely a lot on hummingbirds because they have very long beaks and can also transport pollen. We Cardinal Flowers like to grow in very wet and moist places like by the edge of a garden, that’s where I live, and today they got the mower out! I am just at the edge of a garden like I said before, but the mower started coming at me, but then at the last moment it swerved and carried on calmly. Another experience that I had was when I was first planted in a dry patch so I was dying and in that case they moved me next to the garden , and during that time when I was over there I got to see a lot of deer graze right beside me!  #closecall #native  

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