vascular vs non-vasular
These plants have tissues that act like tubes to transport water and food.
What are vascular plants?
A plant that completes its entire life cycle in a single growing season.
What is an annual?
This major group of plants produces seeds that are enclosed within a fruit or pod.
What are angiosperms (flowering plants)?
Plants in this category have flower parts in multiples of three.
What are monocots?
The science of the classification of living things.
What is taxonomy?
This group of plants, which includes mosses, absorbs water much like a sponge absorbs liquid.
What are non-vascular plants?
A plant that requires two growing seasons to complete its life cycle.
What is a biennial?
Seed plants that bear their seeds directly on the scales of cones, like pine trees, belong to this group.
What are gymnosperms?
Plants in this category have two seed leaves or cotyledons.
What are dicots?
A structure containing one or more matured ovaries.
What is a fruit?
Non-vascular plants are generally small and grow close to the ground because they lack this type of tissue.
What is vascular tissue/xylem/phloem?
This type of plant, such as a daylily or a tree, grows for three or more growing seasons.
What is a perennial?
Non-seed plants like mosses and ferns reproduce using these single-celled reproductive units.
What are spores?
This type of root system, found in grasses, is dense and branching.
What is a fibrous root system?
The male part of a flower that produces pollen.
What is the stamen?
An example of a seedless vascular plant is this common forest floor greenery.
What is a fern?
During the first year, biennials typically produce only these structures, which are involved in vegetative growth.
What are leaves or vegetative structures?
This is another name for the seed leaves that provide food for the plant embryo.
What are cotyledons?
Dicots typically have this type of leaf vein pattern.
What are branched or net-like veins?
This scientist is widely considered the "Father of Taxonomy."
Who is Carl Linnaeus?
These two types of tissues are the specific tubes responsible for transporting water and nutrients, respectively, in vascular plants.
What are xylem and phloem?
This term describes a plant with a non-woody stem, often associated with annuals and some perennials.
What is a herbaceous plant?
The word "gymnosperm" originates from the Greek language and literally means this.
What does it mean "naked seed"?
In a monocot plant, the vascular bundles are arranged in this specific way within the stem.
What are scattered or complexly arranged (not in a ring)?
This term describes a flower that is missing either the stamen, the pistil, or the sepals/petals.
What is an incomplete flower?