Flowers miss petals are described as apetalous and may refuse our feeling of what a flower is for . Petals , specially colored and showy petal , draw pollinators such as snort and bees . Some peak are pollinate by the wind , though , and these do n’t need petals or any other jazzy element . Still other works produce colored leaves or showy sepal – sepals are a form of modify leaf – and practice these petal posers to attract attention rather .
Calla Lily
Not only is the calla lily apetalous , it is asepalous , lacking the sepals that would normally be locate on the outmost part of a concluded flower . ( Complete bloom have all four of the basic voice that blossom can possess . ) With neither petals nor sepal , Zantedeschia aethiopica lilies are believe " naked . " In botany , naked flush are " achlamydeous . "
What looks like a single furled petal protecting a icteric capitulum on the inside of a calla lily is really just a pretty folio called a bract , specifically a spathe bract .
Zantedeschia aethiopica lily like the sun and can turn in a boggy section of the garden . Besides white , intercrossed genus Calla may have bracts of yellow , pink , purple and cream .
Anemone
The windflower belongs to the buttercup family , most of which have no flower petal . Indeed , the honest buttercup is the only member that has petals .
Instead of a annulus of petal , the anemone lark about a ring of sepal , jointly phone the calyx . ( Petals are together with forebode the corolla . ) Since there are many species of anemones , sepal are found in a variety of color , from yellowness to reds to purples to white .
Clematis
Clematis is a democratic flower among gardeners and another member of the buttercup family , or , botanically , the Ranunculaceae family . Many coinage of clematis survive and because gardener like the flowers , a lot of hybrid are uncommitted as well . Most of the plants run to be vining and come in many colors . These colored part of the clematis are not petals , but sepal .
Hepatica
Hepatica is a pretty bloom that belies its name : hepatica refers to liver . The blossom is so - named because its leave-taking look like a human liver . Three green bracts beneath the flower might look to some like sepals rather of leaves , fooling some into believe the blue sepals are petals .
Hepatica can take tint , make it welcome to many gardeners who have wooded area .
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