Signed, Jennifer-Bowdon Elementary. Roses are red. Violets are blue. Flowers are about the prettiest thing you ever saw on this green earth. It's for a pretty neat reason.
Flowers are a plant's way of attracting attention to itself.
Many plants do this because they need to attract insects to reproduce. They need the insect to carry pollen from flower to flower because the plants can't move themselves. To attract an insect, plants have quite a few interesting tricks such as offering sweet nectar to eat, producing a delicious smell, or maybe just a bright pretty color to catch the eye. These bright pretty colors are created by pigments, or colored molecules, found in the cells of plants. Chlorophyll is so common in the cells, it makes the whole plant look green.