cleistogamous
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Every plant which produces these cleistogamous or bud-fertilized flowers bears also more conspicuous and open flowers, usually of bright colors.
From The Elements of Botany For Beginners and For Schools by Gray, Asa
In England, where this jewel-weed is rapidly becoming naturalized, Darwin recorded there are twenty plants producing cleistogamous flowers to one having showy blossoms which, even when produced, seldom set seed.
From Wild Flowers An Aid to Knowledge of Our Wild Flowers and Their Insect Visitors by Blanchan, Neltje
In addition to its showy blossoms, which so successfully invite insects to transfer their pollen, thereby counteracting the bad effects of close inbreeding, the plant bears inconspicuous cleistogamous or blind ones also.
From Wild Flowers An Aid to Knowledge of Our Wild Flowers and Their Insect Visitors by Blanchan, Neltje
If it were only a question of producing seed in the simplest way, cleistogamous flowers would be the most conveniently constructed.
From Darwin and Modern Science by Seward, A. C. (Albert Charles)
His view that cleistogamous flowers are derived from originally chasmogamous flowers has been confirmed by more recent researches.
From Darwin and Modern Science by Seward, A. C. (Albert Charles)
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