Seeds and Ants United

Co-evolution! Many plants, such as violets, wild ginger, trillium, bloodroot, trout lilly (all out and about on my last walk in the forest preserve), use ants to disperse and bury their seeds by producing nutrient rich appendages on their seeds specifically for their consumption! ^o^ Awesome.

https://www.facebook.com/InDefenseOfPlants
http://ecology.science.unideb.hu/ConsEcolGroup/Pdf/Lengyel%20et%20al%202010%20(MyrmecochoryReview).pdf

-Liana