Plant seeds are the start of a new plant can be dispersed in a number of ways, wind, animal, water, and self mechanisms like bursting and shaking. Find out how seeds produce new plants and disperse here.

AZ Master Gardener Manual: Seeds
AZ Master Gardener Manual: Seeds The University of Arizona Description of seeds and seedlings; click on images to enlarge.
http://ag.arizona.edu/pubs/garden/mg/botany/seeds....
BBC - Wildlife Finder - Seed Dispersal (video, facts and news)
BBC - Wildlife Finder - Seed Dispersal (video, facts and news) Depending on your location, you may or may not be able to view the videos in this BBC program. Even if you can't, you can see pictu
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Biology of Plants: Seed Dispersal
Biology of Plants: Seed Dispersal Missouri Botanical Garden Seed Dispersal People plant some seeds, but most plants don't rely on people. Plants rely on animals and wind and water to help scat
http://www.mbgnet.net/bioplants/seed.html
Burdock Seed Dispersal, YouTube
Burdock Seed Dispersal uwmcollegevideos YouTube Video length: 04:17.
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Drift Seeds And Drift Fruits
Drift Seeds And Drift Fruits By W.P. Armstrong Wayne's World Great site! Drift seeds and drift fruits are 'seeds that ride the ocean current'. This page has s map and photos showing the specie
http://waynesword.palomar.edu/pldec398.htm
EEK! Seedy Characters
EEK! Seedy Characters, Environmental Education for Kids, Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources Seeds disperse themselves in different ways. Take this simple quiz and find out how seeds manage
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Elephant Grows the Forest - YouTube
Elephant Grows the Forest created by Elephant Reintroduction Foundation YouTube.com Video length: 01:30.
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Fruit and Seed Dispersal
Fruit and Seed Dispersal Department of Biological Sciences Vanderbilt University Images and description of plants and how they distribute fruit or seeds; click on an image for a larger version.
http://www.cas.vanderbilt.edu/bioimages/pages/frui...
Fruit development
Fruit development Department of Biological Sciences Vanderbilt University Image and description from flower to fruit on different plants; click on an image for a larger version.
http://www.cas.vanderbilt.edu/bioimages/pages/frui...
Fruits and Seeds
Fruits and Seeds By Shirley Burchill and Paul Billiet The Open Door Web Site Since plants do not move from place to place, they have developed ways to make certain that their seeds are taken we
http://www.saburchill.com/chapters/chap0045.html
New study: why plants produce different sized seeds
New study: why plants produce different sized seeds Jeremy Hance mongabay.com February 17, 2010 The longstanding belief as to why some plants produce big seeds and others small seeds is that
http://news.mongabay.com/2010/0217-hance_seedsize....
Plant Dispersal
Plant Dispersal By ENOW2008 University of Wyoming Cooperative Extension Service Sustainable Management of Rangeland Resources Initiative Team Video length: 01:11.
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Plant Structures - The Seed
Plant Structures - The Seed SparkNotes.com The seed, which surrounds the plant embryo and protects it from desiccation in the uncertain conditions of a terrestrial environment, is one of the ad
http://www.sparknotes.com/biology/plants/plantstru...
Plants Use Clever (but Smelly) Ruse to Spread Seeds
Plants Use Clever (but Smelly) Ruse to Spread Seeds, October 5, 2015, By Charles Q. Cho, Live Science Contributor Plants that produce seeds that look and smell like antelope poop are able to tr
http://www.livescience.com/52380-plants-spread-see...
Seed Disperal 1
Seed Disperal 1 Zephyrus Interactive Education WHY DO SEEDS DISPERSE TO FORM NEW PLANTS? If the seeds simply fell and grew beneath the parent plants they would be too overcrowded and would be sta
http://www.zephyrus.co.uk/seeddispersal1.html
Seed Dispersal
Seed Dispersal by Alan & Hui Meng Mouseover the pictures to learn more about the dispersion of seeds ... By Splitting Suddenly - Explosive Action of Fruits Some fruits scatter their seeds
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Seed Dispersal
Seed Dispersal, Morning-Earth.org, Plant seeds are dispersed in many ways. This page includes many photographs and information on wind dispersal, spinners and gliders, silky parachutes, pods, anim
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Seed Dispersal - How Plants Spread
Seed Dispersal - How Plants Spread The Seed Site Before they can grow into new plants, seeds need to leave the seed pod. If all the seeds a plant produced landed just underneath the parent plant
http://theseedsite.co.uk/dispersal.html
Seed Dispersal 1
Seed Dispersal 1 Zephyrus Interactive Education on the Web There are five ways that seeds are dispersed. 1: Wind dispersal 2: Water dispersal 3: Animal dispersal 4: Explosions
http://www.zephyrus.co.uk/seeddispersal1.html
Seed dispersal in the face of climate change, an interview with Arndt Hampe
Seed dispersal in the face of climate change, an interview with Arndt Hampe Jeremy Hance mongabay.com April 05, 2010 Without seed dispersal plants could not survive. Seed dispersal-i.e. birds
http://news.mongabay.com/2010/0405-hance_hampe.htm...
Seed dispersal of desert plants
Seed dispersal of desert plants Content Partner: Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum (other articles) This article has been reviewed and approved by the following Topic Editor: Mark McGinley (other article
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Seed Dispersal Video
Seed Dispersal Video Idaho Weed Awareness Campaign We are looking at a close up of the seed heads of Rush Skeletonweed and Roger Batt explains that you can the seeds are so light here that they
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Seeds (patterns and sizes)
Seeds (patterns and sizes) Grade 1 Hartcourtschool.com Learn about seeds and the life cycle of plants. (Interactive Activity) Visit the web site to get started.
http://www.harcourtschool.com/activity/science_up_...
Symbiosis: How a Plant Survives By Making Mice Spit Out Its Seeds
Symbiosis: How a Plant Survives By Making Mice Spit Out Its Seeds, Written by: Joseph Dunsay, Scribol Staff, "As organisms fight to survive and multiply, they benefit from interactions with other
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The Role of Fruits in Seed Dispersal
The Role of Fruits in Seed Dispersal Infoplease.com The structure of a fruit often facilitates the dispersal of its seeds. Please visit the web site to learn more.
https://www.infoplease.com/encyclopedia/plants-and...
The Surprising Secrets of Well-Traveled Seeds: Photos
The Surprising Secrets of Well-Traveled Seeds: Photos, April 1, 2015, Discovery News, "Spring offers us a reminder that each seed is a tiny embryo, and you can hold hundreds or thousands of these
https://www.seeker.com/the-surprising-secrets-of-w...
Time lapse radish seeds sprouting, top and roots growing
Time lapse radish seeds sprouting, top and roots growing mindlapse March 02, 2007 YouTube.com Video length: 0:46.
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What is Photoperiodism?
What is Photoperiodism? Written by S.E. Smith Wisegeek.com Photoperiodism is a biological response to light levels which occurs in many organisms around the world. Visit the web site for the
http://www.wisegeek.com/what-is-photoperiodism.htm
Why seed dispersers matter, an interview with Pierre-Michel Forget, chair of the FSD International Symposium
Why seed dispersers matter, an interview with Pierre-Michel Forget, chair of the FSD International Symposium Jeremy Hance mongabay.com March 07, 2010 There are few areas of research in tropica
Why seed dispersers matter, an interview with Pierre-Michel Forget, chair of the...
Wind Dispersal of Seeds
Wind Dispersal of Seeds By W.P. Armstrong Wayne's Word Seeds & Fruits Dispersed By Wind One of the important functions of seeds and fruits is dispersal; a mechanism to establish the embryo-bea
http://waynesword.palomar.edu/plfeb99.htm