Plants and Their Environment

Plants Living eukaryotic organisms Chlorophyll Manufacture their own food Autotroph/Producer Cell walls Support the cell and whole structure

Plants Cannot move when environment changes Must be able to; Get nutrients Reproduce Retain moisture

Ways to Group Plants Uses Physiology Life Cycle Fruit, vegetables, shrubs, flowers, turf Physiology Non vascular or Vascular With or without seeds Life Cycle Annual, seed to production one year Biennial, seed to storage in one year Perennial, flowers and seeds each year

Perennial Herbaceous Woody Deciduous Evergreen Tender Hardy

Structure Flowers, leaves, fruit, or seed Angiosperms Gymnosperms Flowering Gymnosperms Cone – bearers Mosses and ferns Reproduce by spores

Taxonomy Domain Kingdom Phylum/Division Class Order Family Genus Species

Division Bryophytes

Division Pteridophytes

Subdivision Gymnosperm

Subdivision Angiosperm

Evolution of Plants