Can you name the flower parts?

The photo on the right shows a lily and, if you look closely, you can see many different parts. Look for the stamens, each with a filament and anther. Then look for the pistil with its stigma at the top. It's easy to pick out the petals and the lily buds.

Click on the lily to check your answers.

After checking your answers on this page's top photo, you should be able to find the stamens and pistils on the plants in the three photos below.

This columbine has blue sepals.

What color are the sepals of this columbine?

Daffodils bloom in early spring.

All three iris plants above have irregular shaped flowers.

Foxglove is poisonous.

The sepals on this Fuchsia are red.

Hyacinth grows from a bulb.

African Violets are often grown as houseplants.

Water Lilies

Hydrangea

Trillium comes from a Latin word meaning three. These plants have three leaves, three petals, and three sepals.

Tunia has yarrow in her garden.

Cactus plants grow in areas that are hot and dry all year.

Poppies are perennial plants that like hot and dry conditions during their growing season.

Crocus

Tulips are spring flowering plants that grow from bulbs.

Rose

Roses and rosebuds

Zinnia

The poinsettia, above left, and the bougainvillea, above center, are examples of flowers surrounded by bracts. Above, the poinsettia flowers are the tiny yellow flowers in the center of the photo. They are surrounded by red bracts, which many people mistake for flowers. The bougainvillea has pink bracts and tiny light yellow flowers.

Violet

The photos on the left and right show examples of composite flowers. Composite flowers are really two kinds of flowers in one. To the left, the white petals on the Shasta Daisy are ray flowers, which encircle the floral head made up of yellow disk flowers in the center. Ray flowers have petals, but do not have pistils or stamens. Look for the ray flowers and the disk flowers in the composite flower, which is a Gerbera Daisy, to the right.