• Every plant shares a common structural makeup with a few detail variations.macro orange flower image by Furan from Fotolia.com
  
  While no two species of green plant looks identical, they all share the same basic anatomy. Whether you are a gardener, an aspiring botanist or a parent looking to teach your children about how plants work, the parts of green plants can be useful to know. Learn about each part of green plants and the function the parts perform for the plants.
  
  

Roots

• Roots provide the plant with nourishment.roots of lettuce image by MAXFX from Fotolia.com
  
  Roots are located at the lowest end of the plant, usually underground. The roots look like strings that are intertwined in a random webbing. With fibrous root systems, the roots are thin and delicate but each system has several roots. A taproot system has only a few actual roots, but the roots are thick and hardy. The purpose of all root systems is to carry water and nutrients from the soil to the plant and to offer stability in the ground.
  
  

Stems

• Stems act like a highway for transporting nutrients and water througout the plant.flower raindrops image by Janet Wall from Fotolia.com
  
  Stems are what creates the height or length of a plant to allow it to reach sunlight. The stems connect the roots with other parts of the plant and serve as transportation for nutrients and water between the roots and other parts. Stems on vegetables, smaller leafy plants and flowers are usually thin, but stems can also grow to be quite large, as with trees, shrubs and thick vine plants.
  
  

Leaves

• Leaves are where photosynthesis takes place.a leaf image by timur1970 from Fotolia.com
  
  The leaves of a green plant are attached to the stem with a smaller stem-like branch called a petiole. They are the part of the plant that facilitates photosynthesis, which is a process through which the plant uses sunlight, carbon dioxide, chlorophyll and the nutrients from the root system to create glucose, a food for the plant, and releases oxygen into the air. Leaves can be simple, with single leaves, or compound, where several leaves are attached to the same petiole.
  
  

Flowers

• The flower is a highly complex part of the plant.crocuses first flower spring flower image by Pali A from Fotolia.com
  
  Flowers are typically seen as attractive decoration for plants, but they are actually the site of reproduction for the plant. They are an important part of the life cycle of the plant, as the plant itself has only the intent of spreading itself to create more plants. Flowers are made up of male and female parts. The female part is the pistil, which is made up of the stigma, style and ovary. The pistil is surrounded by stamens, the male part of the flower, which are made up of anthers and filaments. The stamens produce pollen, which lands on flowers' pistils and fertilize the flowers by traveling into the lowest part of the pistil, the ovary. Once fertilization occurs, the ovary produces seeds. It grows and swells as the seeds mature, eventually becoming the fruit of the plant.
  
  

Fruit

• Fruits contain and protect the seeds of green plants.Slices of Kiwi fruit with two whole fruit in the background image by Jack Kunnen from Fotolia.com
  
  During the seed production process, the flower's ovary swells as seeds are produced. The ovary itself forms the fruit of the plant. The fruit is made up of the seed, which is a plant embryo, and the protective outer layer, the fruit itself. The fruit contains the seed until the fruit is consumed or it decomposes. If the fruit is consumed by a human or other animal, the seeds are spread through animal digestion or human intervention.