Most plants flower, but do grains also flower in some way?

Question

i.e.

Wheat

Rye

Barley

Oats, etc...

Answer 1

all those plants have a seed... therefore, they must have had a flower, too... here's a little info I found on Google...

The wheat plant is a tall annual and typically grows to a height of four feet (1.2 meters). The leaves, similar to those of other grasses, appear early and are followed by slender stalks that produce flowers. Flowers that are fertilized produce seeds called grains or kernels. The wheat kernel is made up of three parts: the endosperm, the bran, and the germ. The tiny germ is the part of the kernel that will sprout and grow into a new wheat plant if the seed is planted.

The wheat flowers are self-fertilised by the movement of pollen from the male part of the wheat flower (stamen) to the female part (the stigma). Each flowering head fertilises its own flower. Once this has occurred the grain begins to grow and develop.

so the top of the  plant where you find the grain is where the flowers were, too.... some are very , very small.....

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Answer 2

Yes.  In the corn plant you see a tassel at the top, that's the male flower.  In the leaf junctions you will see the silks, the female flower.  Corn is self pollinating.  Of course pollen does get blown around to other corn plants.

Wheat is a grass and like most grass has a flowering stalk.  However, wheat has been bio-engineered in every conceivable way.  Oats, rye and barley are all flowering grains, all have been bio-engineered to some degree.

Answer 3

Grasses do have flowers, but they're wind polinated,

so the structures are small and not evident except on

close examination.