Manitoba Museum Botany: Take me away: gettin? around when you?re stuck in the ground

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    One of the problems with being a plant is that you can’t move away if the habitat you are growing in becomes unsuitable. Plants have thus developed a life stage that is capable of moving: fruits and seeds. Some plants use wind to distribute their seeds. Root parasites like louseworts (Pedicularis), produce thousands of seeds [...]

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