Wise up Plants form flowers in response to particular climate changes such as sunny, dry conditions or drought. Plants that have good growing conditions are unlikely to produce many flowers, but instead will form many green leaves and increase their size rapidly. Flowering enables sexual reproduction to take place and is a plant survival response. Some plants reproduce to form similar identical plants by sending out runners e.g. strawberry. This is termed asexual reproduction , as it does not require reproduction by flowering.
Flowers are a plant's reproductive organs.
The male gametes are pollen . The female gametes are ovules . Flowers enable pollen from one plant can fertilise ovules of another plant. This is called cross-fertilisation and helps create a greater variety in the plants. Variety aids survival as usually some plants will adapt and live in any new conditions.