What spreads seeds by the wind?

There are two ways to spread plant seeds, one is with the help of external forces, such as wind, water, animals and human beings, and the other is to rely on their own strength. So, what spreads seeds by the wind?

There are Zhaohe grass, poplar, willow, maple, dandelion and other plants that spread seeds by wind.

1. Showa grass

It is an annual or biennial herb with a special fragrance, flowers accumulating into heads, red drooping. The fruit is a small achene with a crown that will blow away in the wind. Showa grass likes cold and can not bear high temperature.

2. Poplar

The seed is small and the capsule is dehiscent when it is ripe, so the seed is collected by cutting the ear or collecting from the ground. Seeds are easy to lose their germinating power and should be sowed as they are picked. Sowing and raising seedlings on sandy loam soil with a lot of humus.

3. Willow

It is a big deciduous tree, alias willow. A deciduous tree or shrub of the family Salix, having green leaves, slender willow branches, soft and drooping, sexually fond of wetlands. The fruit is a capsule, 2-valved after maturity, containing many seeds, with a clump of woolly hair on the seeds, that is, catkins. The seeds were harvested in April and sowed as they were picked.

4. Acer

It is mainly propagated with seeds. Samara has a long shedding period after ripening and gradually falls with the wind, so it should be collected in time. After postharvest drying for 3-5 days, the pure Samara obtained after removal of impurities is the sowing material.

5. Dandelion

Alias Huanghua Di Ding, mother-in-law Ding, Hua Hua Lang and so on. Perennial herbs of Compositae. A capitate flower with a ball of white crown hairs on its seeds, which floats to a new place with the wind to give birth to new life.

Plants that rely on the wind to spread their seeds actually use the wind as a "matchmaker". Their petals can be called wind-pollinated flowers, which have a large number of pollens, which are smooth and dry, and some even have airbags that are easy to fly. With the help of the wind, pollen can rise to more than 2 kilometers with the wind.