The flowers and leaves are the only beautiful part of a plant right? Well what about the roots? Aren’t they wonderful, too? Roots are very important to plant’s living and being. They hold the plant down in the ground so it won’t topple over and die. They also take nutrients and water from the soil through tubes inside the root itself. These necessities get carried to the plant so the plant can eat and survive. When the plants have enough extra food left over, they send it back to the roots to be stored. There are three types of roots: the taproot, fibrous root and the adventitious root. Taproots grow very deep into the ground and there is one main root with many other roots coming off of it. They are large and fleshy and are also sometimes used to store food. Fibrous roots grow near the surface of the soil to gather rain early. They are little root hairs that gather in clumps and look like a bushy mane of hair. They look somewhat like Hagrid’s from Harry Potter. Adventitious roots help plants such as vines to climb. They grow on the sides of roots, horizontally. Lastly, they help underground stems grow, such as bulbs. So, roots are one of the many important things a plant needs to live. Without roots like these, all the plants wouldn’t have enough nutrients, water and would all fall over.