2 feet 4 feet 6 feet 8 feet 10 feet

Number of flowers

Flower color

What Shade of Purple?

Trial 1 Trial 2 Trial 3 Trial 4 Trial 52 feet 8

white flowers

5 white flowers

4 white flowers

11 white flowers

9 white flowers

4 feet 6 white, 3 light purple flowers

8 white, 4 light purple flowers

2 white, 6 light purple flowers

9 white, 3 light purple flowers

2 white, 7 light purple flowers

6 feet 8 light purple flowers

3 light purple flowers

9 light purple flowers

12 light purple flowers

5 light purple flowers

8 feet 5 light purple, 3 dark purple flowers

8 light purple, 1 dark purple flower

6 light purple, 5 dark purple flowers

3 light purple, 8 dark purple flowers

2 light purple, 5 dark purple flowers

10 feet 8 dark purple flowers

13 dark purple flowers

2 dark purple flowers

9 dark purple flowers

4 dark purple flowers

In conclusion, our group proved our hypothesis right, because the deeper we went into the forest to collect data, the darker the flowers became. Our table shows that at 2 feet, there were only white flowers and at 10 feet, there were only dark purple flowers. When comparing our findings to those in the actual population, our results were very accurate. Next time we do a design lab with ecology, and we choose this same experiment, we should try to go farther back into the forest to find a completely shaded in area, because we found most of our data only 10 feet away from direct sunlight, and it wouldn’t prove to be an excellent representation of the entire population.