> avocado Would you like to have a garden in your living room? One way to do it is to buy house plants. Philodendrons, serpent's tongue, and rubber plants, which grow wild in hot parts of the...
A window-sill garden
You can have a bright, cheerful garden in your house all winter---a window-sill garden of house plants! You can buy small house plants at many stores. Put them on a window sill, or on a table near a...
Plants that make you itch and burn
> poison ivy The plants shown on this page can hurt you. If you should happen to touch one of them, it can make your skin burn and sting and itch. Learn to recognize these plants so you can stay...
Indian potatoes
When the Pilgrims came to America they didn't have much food. But friendly Indians showed them how to grow corn, beans, and squash. And the Indians showed the Pilgrims where to find wild plants to...
Arrowhead
> Indians liked to eat arrowhead roots. They pulled the plants out of > the mud with their toes. If you were an Indian long ago, you might have gone wading to get some of your food. Arrowhead is...
Vampire plants
Some plants live like vampires. They fasten themselves to other plants and suck food and water out of them I When a plant called a dodder sprouts from the ground, it stretches out toward the...
Plants that climb
If a green plant doesn't get enough sunlight, it will die. The best way for a plant to get lots of sunlight is to grow tall. But if a plant with a very thin stem grows too tall, it will just topple...
Plants that live in trees
Do you know there are some kinds of plants that never grow in the ground? They grow high up in trees in tropical forests. There's a good reason for this. In a forest where trees grow tall and close...
Plants that trap insects
In many wet and swampy places there are plants that trap insects! But plants don't "eat." If plants don't "eat," then why do they catch insects? All plants need a salt called a nitrate. It helps...
Plants that can swim!
Chlamydomonas Chlamydomonas is a tiny plant that swims like an animal! > Sometimes, 16 of these tiny plants form a jellylike wheel and live in > it together. If you peeked at a drop of pond...