If you get sick, a plant may help you get well. Many medicines that doctors give sick people are made from plants. People with heart trouble use a medicine made from this plant. One of the best...
Party treats from plants
> -=«-\\\■ > > Sugar, syrup, and honey all come from plants. > > So do pepper, mustard, and most other spices. > > Bread, breakfast food, and popcorn are all made from the fruit of > plants called...
Bread, breakfast food, and popcorn
Do you know that you probably eat grass? When we think of grass we usually think of green lawns. But there are many kinds of grass. Wheat, oats, rye, barley, rice, and corn (which is called maize in...
Seeds, stems, and salad stuff
All the foods we call vegetables come from some part of a plant. Lima beans, peas, and kidney beans are plant seeds. Radishes, carrots, and beets are plant roots. Onions are plant bulbs. Potatoes...
What Plants Do for Us
rfW/MWtr Plants do a lot for us. We couldn't live without them. Plants give us vegetables, fruits, cereals, and most other foods we eat. Plants give us wood for building houses and making...
Looking at plants of long ago
How would you like to see a real leaf that might have been touched by a dinosaur---a leaf that's more than 100 million years old? It seems almost impossible, but such leaves really have been found! ...
The forests that turned to coal
> Today, horsetails are small. But millions of years ago, they were as > tall as trees. > > horsetails The air was hot and wet. The ground was soft and oozy. Dragonflies with wings as long as...
The snaky plants
About 400 million years ago, the plants on land looked like snakes with stalks on their backs. The long, snaky, rootlike stems of these plants curled over the ground. Tiny hairs grew out of the...
The soil makers
Hundreds of millions of years ago, all the land was just bare, hard rock, sand, or clay. Now, soil covers most of the land. Where did the soil come from? Plants and weather made it. The first living...
The plants that conquered the land
Scientists think that the first living thing on land came out of the water about 500 million years ago. The sea was full of living things. There were jellyfish, sponges, worms, and small, crablike...