i am doing a project on flowers and how they get their color. what are some websites that can help me.?

Answer 1

I included sites with a variety of background information because you didn't say more about the type of report you are doing.
Color producing pigments
http://www.usna.usda.gov/Research/flowercolor.html
http://www.shieldsgardens.com/DLPlace/pigments.html
http://www.uvm.edu/pss/ppp/pubs/oh24colr.htm
Coloring pigments, found in chromoplasts, give both fruit and flowers their distinctive appearance.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chromoplast
http://209.85.129.104/search?q=cache:xSzij91KjRoJ:botit.botany.wisc.edu/courses/botany_130/Lab_topics/afPlantCell.pdf+chromoplasts+flowers&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=9&gl=us&client=firefox-a
http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m3741/is_n7_v44/ai_18598625
http://www.pnas.org/cgi/content/full/98/24/13745

Evolution of pigmentation in flowers. Flower color and shape is strongly associated with speciation in plants.
http://www.pnas.org/cgi/content/abstract/97/13/7016?ck=nck
http://books.google.com/books?id=izUXAjjjBcMC&pg=PA190&lpg=PA190&dq=flower+color+evolution&source=web&ots=VOO9ObAbHD&sig=wkVNYY7GZg3j1YDJa7TkVXsN44Y
http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1511/is_n9_v17/ai_18577876
http://sciencecareers.sciencemag.org/career_development/previous_issues/articles/2005_12_23/the_evolution_of_butterfly_vision
http://www.blackwell-synergy.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.1469-8137.1904.tb05841.x
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Co-evolution
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science?_ob=ArticleURL&_udi=B6WNH-494C7GB-1&_user=10&_rdoc=1&_fmt=&_orig=search&_sort=d&view=c&_acct=C000050221&_version=1&_urlVersion=0&_userid=10&md5=83e6495958582a50f1d8afe187fd9078


Many plant species maintain both colored and white flowers as allelic variants. It is thought there is a link between floral pigmentation and either transpiration rates or UV screening. White flowers may transpire less than colored, and have a physiological advantage in drier conditions. Alternately the colored flowers may have a greater protection from UV.
Here research shows white flowers transpire 50% more than their colored counterparts. http://eco.confex.com/eco/2007/techprogram/P5226.HTM
Echinocereus cacti show floral variation in exposure to UV at various intensities.
http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0363-6445%28198804%2F06%2913%3A2%3C173%3AFPAPIE%3E2.0.CO%3B2-7&size=LARGE&origin=JSTOR-enlargePage

Many insects see into the UV spectra so flowers guide marks are often only visible to eyes adapted to respond to wave lengths shorter than 400nm.
Flowers photographed in UV spectral ranges insects see in.
http://www.naturfotograf.com/UV_flowers_list.html
http://www.srs.fs.fed.us/4505/hanula/pollinator_studies/uv_photography.htm
http://thesqueakyshutter.net/community/viewtopic.php?p=23897&sid=8f33f8fc8c7ee2e40ebd996cd347faac
http://gears.tucson.ars.ag.gov/ic/vision/bee-vision.html
http://www.windows.ucar.edu/tour/link=/physical_science/magnetism/em_ultraviolet.html

Flavinoids in polination. These are often located in 'honey guides' or pigmented spots on petals.
http://books.google.com/books?id=SEZdLxbep4IC&pg=PA597&lpg=PA597&dq=uv+bee+guides&source=web&ots=vy5qB5YcfS&sig=seBVoVkA-3Q3zWaa6PY3IPkdZIY
http://www.springerlink.com/content/p458r13vwh8t4778/
http://books.google.com/books?id=70ka0rpIcmQC&pg=PA7&lpg=PA7&dq=pigments+in+pollination&source=web&ots=-rtO88P-N2&sig=zWlfxOPvA8R5vp6apLaRQOfFAeA
http://www.amjbot.org/cgi/content/full/88/3/447
http://www.charlies-web.com/specialtopics/anthocyanin.html
Wavelength, intensity, and spectral purity influence the signal pattern interpretation by insects & birds.
http://www.springerlink.com/content/m582430371415245/
A human condition called aphakia allows some people to see in UV from 300 - 400nm. This has in turm led to more work in visual perception in these wavelengths.
http://starklab.slu.edu/humanUV.htm
http://www.bio.bris.ac.uk/research/vision/4d.htm
http://answers.google.com/answers/threadview?id=568701
http://www.butterflyzone.org/butterfly-articles/butterfly-uv-vision.shtml
http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/articlerender.fcgi?&pubmedid=12824471
http://starklab.slu.edu/humanUV.htm

Answer 2

Here are a couple of ones for getting the "black" flower which is kind of the pinnicle of flwoer breeding. There is an interactive pollionator game which is tricky but worth it when you make a black flower!!!!...you can spend a long time trying to do it trust me.

Answer 3

I think it was just a fallen, frozen flower petal.

Answer 4

hope this helps , http://www.answers.com/topic/flower?cat=health