Plant Parts
Tubes that carry sugars and food throughout the plant
What is phloem?
Plants that cannot grow very tall because they have no vascular tissue to conduct water and nutrients
What are nonvascular plants?
The coiled-up frond on a fern
What is a fiddlehead?
Seed-Bearing vascular plants that produce flowers
What are angiosperms?
The stored food available in the seed of angiosperms
What is a cotyledon?
Thin, rootlike structures that anchor moss in place
What are rhizoids?
Underground stems found on some seedless vascular plants
What are rhizomes?
What is a monocot?
The part of a plant that will grow leaves, shoots, or buds
What is a stem?
The leafy branches of a fern
What are fronds?
An angiosperm that needs two growing seasons to fully develop
What is a bienniel?
The first root that emerges from a seed
What is the primary root?
Types of moss that can grow as tall as 70 cm (27.5 inches)
What is tropical moss?
Seedless nonvascular plants which resemble small evergreen trees
What are club mosses?
Gymnosperms, often planted in cities, that have flat, fan-shaped leaves
What are ginkgoes?
The layer of cells in a vascular bundle which divide to make more xylem and phloem
What is the cambium?
Approximately how many species of moss have been identified?
The name used for horsetails in colonial American times
What is "scouring rushes"?
Conifers that have flat, flexible needles directly attached to a branch
What is a fir tree?