Monocots VS. Dicots

As Nicolas moves through his Apologia Botany textbook, he is learning many new things.  If you have ever seen bean plants come up out of the ground, you notice 2 parts that look like leaves.  These are really the 2 parts of the seed.  Bean plants are dicots - meaning 2 parts.  Monocots have only 1 part to the seed. Here are pictures he took of Monocots in our yard.  You can tell they are monocots because the veins in the leaves come straight up from the middle.  Dicot leaves have a many vein called a midrib and other veins branch out from that one - like a maple leaf.