Plant Classification Botany: the study of plants

Ways Plants are Beneficial: Provide most of man's food Release O2 needed by man and animals Plants are raw materials for many manufactured goods Plants are a source of beauty

Misconceptions: All green things are plants. All plants are green. All plants are autotrophic.

The Main Groupings of Plant Phyla

Non-vascular plants Phylum Bryophyta moss liverwort hornwort

Vascular plants without seeds Phylum Psilophyta whiskfern

Vascular plants without seeds Phylum Lycophyta Ground pines

Vascular plants without seeds Phylum Sphenophyta Horsetails

Vascular plants without seeds Phylum Pterophyta ferns

Vascular plants with seeds Phylum Coniferophyta Cone-bearing plants

Vascular plants with seeds Phylum Cycadophyta cycads

Vascular plants with seeds Phylum Ginkgophyta Ginkgo

Vascular plants with seeds Phylum Anthophyta angiosperms Monocot Dicot