Who Is Wind Pollination?

What is wind pollination? Wind pollination (also called 'Anemophily') describes the process of the transfer of pollen from one individual plant to another, whereby the pollen is carried by air currents.

Which is wind pollinated?

Many of the world's most important crop plants are wind-pollinated. These include wheat, rice, corn, rye, barley, and oats. Nut producing trees such as walnuts, pecans and pistachios are usually wind-pollinated as well.

Which flower is pollinated by the wind?

They're usually drifting through the warm spring air. These seeds are the end product of wind pollination, which occurs in many of the hardwood trees of temperate North America, such as the willow, cottonwood, popular and alder. Flowers such as dandelions are also wind pollinated.