kinds of flowers ^^ik^ 



Composites 



FLOWERS ARE FLOWERS, BUT— 



At first all flowers, or blossoms, are just flowers, except for differences In size or 

 color. A violet Is as much flower as a "sunflower" — which is really a combination of 

 hundreds of small "flowers". As we see more and more kinds of flowers, we not 

 only distinguish different kinds and recognize them by name, but we notice that 

 they con be grouped into several classes or families — those with petals arranged 

 around a center, for example, and those that have right-and-left halves; or those 

 that are more or less like daisies and sunflowers, and those that resemble in many 

 ways the flower of the sweet-pea 



