This document describes the main parts of a plant, including the seed, roots, leaves, seedling, flower, fruit, pollen, and stem. Seeds are protected by a seed coat and sprout into seedlings, whose roots take in water and nutrients from the soil while the stem grows upward. Leaves use sunlight, water, and air to photosynthesize and produce food for the plant. Flowers contain pollen and produce fruit containing seeds, completing the life cycle.

1. Parts of a Plant
By Chris Morales

2. Seed
Seed coat is a hard outer protective covering of a
seed.

3. Roots
Roots hold the plant in the ground.
Roots take water and nutrients from the soil.
Roots carry water and nutrients to the stem.

4. Green Leaves
Green leaves use air, water and energy from sunlight to
make food for the plant.

5. Seedling
A new baby plant.
The roots grow down into the soil, but the stem
grows up toward the sunlight and out of the ground.
A new plant sprout that comes out of the ground.

6. Flower
Is the colorful part of the plant that produces fruit and
seeds.
A flower contains pollen which is a powdery substance
that attracts bees and birds which fertilize the flower
seed and cause the flower to produce fruit.

7. Fruit
Fruit can grow around the seed.
When the fruit is eaten, then the seed goes back into the
ground to start the plant cycle all over again.

8. Pollen
Powder is the powdery stuff found in flowers.

9. Germinate
Begin to grow.

10. Stem
The stem carries water and nutrients to the
leaves and the flower.