Why are most plants green?
Green Leftovers
Why are most plants green?
Look out a window almost anywhere, and the world throws the same color at you: green, green, and more green. Leaves, grass, moss, vines. It's so common we stop noticing it. But here's a fun question hiding in plain sight — why GREEN? Why not blue lawns or purple forests? Plants chose this color for a very particular reason, and the reason is a little bit weird.
It all comes down to food. Plants make their own meals out of sunlight — a trick called photosynthesis, which just means "putting things together using light." They drink up light the way you'd gulp lemonade through a straw, and turn it into the sugar they live on.
