Classifying plants

Flowering Plants Non-Flowering Plants Plants can be classified as Flowering Plants and Non-Flowering Plants

Flowering Plants They are the largest plant group. The flowers in these plants make the seeds that help the plant reproduce.

Non-Flowering Plants These are plants that do not make flowers. Even though they do not have flowers, many non-flowering plants make seeds. Non-flowering plants can make seeds in cones. Joint Fir Cycad Pine Tree

Non-Flowering Plants There are non-flowering plants that DO NOT make seeds! Mosses and ferns are non-flowering plants that do not make seeds. Mosses are small, soft plants. Ferns have leaves called fronds. Moss and ferns do not have flowers, cones, OR seeds! They make spores. Spores are NOT seeds! However, spores are like seeds because they can grow into new plants. The spores usually look like brown spots underneath the leaves.

Non-Flowering Plants Ferns Spores Moss

Did you know??? Flowering plants Non-flowering plants with cones Non-flowering plants without cones – mosses and ferns Make seeds Make spores Did you know??? Spores are NOT seeds. Spores are NOT found in cones. (Plants with spores don’t have cones.) Mosses and ferns do NOT make flowers. (They are non-flowering plants.) Mosses and ferns do NOT make seeds. (They make spores instead.)

moss and strawberry plant fern and moss rose bush and fern Here are some questions: 1. Which 2 plants have spores? moss and strawberry plant fern and moss rose bush and fern

seeds flowers spores 2. What do mosses produce? Here are some questions: 2. What do mosses produce? seeds flowers spores

spore-producing plant flowering plant non-flowering plant with cones Here are some questions: 3. How can you classify a fern? spore-producing plant flowering plant non-flowering plant with cones

It has petals. It has spores. It has cones. Here are some questions: 4. What does a plant have if it has seeds, but it doesn’t have flowers? It has petals. It has spores. It has cones.

It has brown spots underneath the leaves. It has flowers. Here are some questions: 5. How can you identify a fern? It has cones. It has brown spots underneath the leaves. It has flowers.

fern and rose bush fern and pine tree rose bush and pine tree Here are some questions: 6. If you see a rose bush, a fern, and a pine tree, which have seeds? fern and rose bush fern and pine tree rose bush and pine tree

Non-flowering plants with cones make seeds. Ferns make seeds. Here are some questions: 7. What is true about seeds? Non-flowering plants with cones make seeds. Ferns make seeds. Mosses and flowering plants make seeds.