plants

A collection of miscellaneous facts about nature, animals, plants, and the human body.

A guide to plants which reproduce without bearing flowers, including a general introduction and suggested activities. Divided by type of plant: algae, fungi, lichens, mosses, liverworts, ferns, and gymnosperms.

Margaret and Casey become worried about their father when they meet some of the plants he is growing down in the basement. Is this just another harmless experiment or is the basement becoming another little shop of horrors?.

Presents several easy-to-do science experiments using plants.

Explains how flowers and other plants grow from seeds, using water, sunlight, and air to develop.

Discusses the elements that make plants grow, the structure of flowering plants, and the way they reproduce, and includes simple related activities.

Looks beneath the surface of plants to see how they work, their complex structures, how trees support themselves, how pollen carries life, and much more.

Bella Baxter's idea to add special touches to the rooms of their guests at the Sea Inn backfires when an important botanist, Dr. Frederick Fauna, arrives.

Presents alphabetized profiles of more than four hundred animals, plants, microorganisms, and habitats, covering each animal or plant's physical characteristics, geographic range, food, behavior, reproduction, and conservation status; each microorganism's shape, motion, nourishment, and actions; and each habitat's physical features, range, climate, and typical inhabitants.

In this collection of poems and paintings, the author invites the readers to join her as she watches a barred owl silently sailing through the sky, and turns a garbage-strewn lot into a magical city garden.