Little Wanderers. Why Plants Travel
Those that Fly with Plumes or Down, Seeds that Fly with Wings
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Plants are great travelers; they often wander far and wide. Sometimes they even cross the ocean and take up their abode in a new land.
The oxeye daisy, our common meadow buttercup, and the little Canada thistle, now so abundant everywhere, are not native Americans, but came here from Europe.
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Why Plants Travel
1
Those that Fly with Plumes or Down
4
Dandelions
4
Thistles
15
Milkweeds
20
Lettuce
25
Clematis
27
Asters and Golden-Rod
29
The Willow
31
Cattails
37
Geraniums
39
Cotton
41
Other Fly-Aways
45
Seeds that Fly with Wings
47
Maples
47
Elms
52
Ash Trees
54
Pines
56
Seeds that Fly without Wings or Plumes
59
Other Seeds that are Moved by the Wind
61
Tumbleweeds
63
Wanderers that Cling
65
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Burdocks
65
Cockleburs and Sand Spurs
68
Tick Trefoil
70
Stick-Tights
73
Agrimony and Other Weeds
76
Flax
78
Mistletoe
80
Other Plants with Sticky Seeds or Seed Pods
82
Wanderers that Float
84
Seeds that Animals Like to Eat
87
The Hickory
87
Walnuts and Butternuts
90
The Chestnut
92
Other Edible Seeds
94
Berries
96
Cherries
98
Apples
100
Seeds that are Shot away
102
Oxalis
102
Witch-Hazel
104
Touch-Me-Not
106
