Plants

How to classify plants They are classified by a table. This table is called a Texan Table. This table is called a Texan Table

The main parts of flowering plants The Flower The Petals The Stem The Root Tips The Roots The Leaves The Buds Big plants like trees get rid of waste by putting it in leaves and dropping them at certain times of the year.

Non-flowering plants Are the oldest plants on earth. Some famous non-flowering plants are ferns and horse tail. Non-flowering plants have survived foe so long because they have been able to adapt to all the changes that have taken place on earth. Non-flowering plants grow from spores and not seeds. This is a fern in a fossil.

Flowering Plants They are plants which produce flowers as their reproductive structures. They come in a great shapes and sizes and include grasses, sedges, rushes, many trees, as well as familiar plants like daffodils and daisies. Flowers often, through not always, have brightly coloured petals.

What are monocotyledons Monocotyledons begin from seeds with just a single leaf. The also tend to have longer,narrow leaves, like grasses, tulips and daffodils. Any of various flowering plants,such as grasses,orchids,lilies,having a single cotyledon in the seed. Monocotyledons tend to have shallow root masses of small roots.

What are dicotyledons They have several differences from other plant, like: Their vascular tissue-the phloem and xylem-is arranged in rings. The pollen of the dicotyledons is pitted with pores. Their roots consist of a tap root which anchors the plant and numerous side roots.

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The End By Louise Patterson