Root
Basal organ of a vascular plant / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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This article is about the part of a plant. For other uses, see Root (disambiguation).
"Rooted" redirects here. For the 1969 play and TV movie adaptation, see Rooted (film). For the song, see Ciara discography.
In vascular plants, the roots are the organs of a plant that are modified to provide anchorage for the plant and take in water and nutrients into the plant body, which allows plants to grow taller and faster.[1] They are most often below the surface of the soil, but roots can also be aerial or aerating, that is, growing up above the ground or especially above water.