1. Non Vascular Plants
Bryophytes

2. Characteristics 3 phyla are collectively called Bryophytes
Primitive, small, mostly terrestrial
Alternation of generation
Produce spores
Sperm need water to reach the egg
No vascular tissue
Pg 567

3. Phylum Bryophyta Moss Pioneer plant and prevent soil erosion
Green mats consist of gametophytes
Sporophyte grows from gametophyte
Attached to soil via rhizoids
No vascular tissue
Do absorb nutrients and anchor plant

4. Phylum Hepatophyta Liverworts
Thin, transparent, leaf - like structures around axis
Gametophyte is topped with reproductive cells
Lie on the ground
Allows them to absorb water

5. Phylum Anthocerophyta
Hornworts
Hornlike sporophytes that grow from top of plant
Share characteristic with algae
Each cell has share a single chloroplast
Sporophyte conducts photosynthesis, have stoma, cuticle
Tube – like cells act as vascular tissue