- most
widespread in the gr**** family. However, the
largest genus of
cleistogamous plants is Viola. The more
common opposite of cleistogamy, or "closed...
- bud-like
cleistogamous ("closed marriage") flowers, and
pollination of
cleistogamous flowers is cleistogamy.
Unlike chasmogamous flowers,
cleistogamous flowers...
- are self-pollinated
before the
flowers open;
these flowers are
called cleistogamous; many
species in the
genus Viola exhibit this, for example. Conversely...
- apomixis. Some
cleistogamous flowers never open, in
contrast to
chasmogamous flowers that open and are then pollinated.
Cleistogamous flowers are by necessity...
- the season,
including chasmogamous flowers in the
early spring and
cleistogamous flowers summer through fall. Similar-looking
species include the round-leaved...
- Self-seeding
freely in
lawns and gardens, it can be
considered a weed by some.
Cleistogamous seed
heads may also
appear on
short stems in late
summer and
early autumn...
-
offspring throughout the year via
cleistogamous flowers.
Plants that
produce copious amounts of
clonal seeds from
cleistogamous flowers often experience increased...
- open,
potentially out-crossed and closed,
obligately self-pollinated
cleistogamous flowers. The
evolutionary shift from
outcrossing to self-fertilization...
- agamospermy, agamy, allogamy, anisogamete, anisogamy, apogamy, autogamy,
cleistogamous, cleistogamy, cryptogam, deuterogamist, deuterogamy, digamous, digamy...
-
Notable examples include sticky bands on the
stems between the nodes,
cleistogamous flowers (which self-pollinate
without opening), or gypsophily, the ability...