Complete Flower
Contains all sepals, petals, stamens, and carpels
Incomplete Flower
Missing one or more of the sepals, petals, stamens, or carpels
Imperfect flowers
Lacking either male (androecium) or female (gynoecium) parts
Perfect Flowers
Containing both male and female parts; hermaphroditic
Monoecious
both male and female flowers present on one individual plant
Dioecious
Male and female flowers are on separate plants
Hypogynous flowers
Superior ovary; sepals and petals attach to the receptacle below the ovary
Superior Ovary
sepals and petals attach to the receptacle BELOW the ovary
Epigynous flower
Inferior ovary; sepals and petals attached above the ovary
Inferior ovary
sepals and petals attached ABOVE the ovary
perigynous flowers
the ovary can be either superior or 1/2 inferior