Plants without Flowers
If plants have no flowers, you will ask, how can the new baby plants grow? Can there be seed babies without flowers?
No, flowerless plants do not bear seeds, but they do have plant babies, otherwise we would not have ferns, mushrooms, and many other important plants.
The plant babies of flowerless plants come from spores, not seeds.
Did you ever gather Christmas ferns? They are the ones which cheer you so with their beautiful green color in the woods when so many other things are asleep in winter.
On the back of the fern leaves, perhaps you have noticed little brown rusty-looking spots.
In these spots or spore-cases are the spores. When the spore cases are ripe, they burst open and throw out the spores which look like a fine dust.
Each grain of this dust must live in a moist, warm place, and pass through several changes before a baby fern can grow.
Mosses grow in a similar way. So, also, do—