This is a book about interesting plant movements and what causes them. Many of these plants are as common as the clover, which we have all seen growing in every open field or lot. But most of us have no idea that clover leaves fold up at night and even less of a notion about what causes this movement. How can the leaves of insect-eating plants like the Venus flytrap or the sundew move to catch their prey? What makes it possible for the seed pods of the touch-me-not to fly open with a snap that throws the seeds for a distance of several feet? Why does a sunflower plant follow the movement of the sun from east to west?

Many easy-to-do experiments illustrate and explain these plant movements. A list of seed houses tells where the seeds may be bought so the reader can grow the plants for his own experiments. Mr. Scherer's accurate drawings add greatly to the interest of the book. 

From the dust jacket