1. Classifying Plants

2. Classifying Plants
Scientists use two characteristics to classify plants into small groups:
a) How plants transport nutrients
b) How plants reproduce

3. Water and Nutrient Transportation
Vascular Plants: They have tubelike structures that connect the leaves, roots, and stem.These structures transport water and nutrients, support the leaves and stem.

4. Vascular Plants
Grass
Ferns
Dandelions
Celery
Tree

5. Water and Nutrient Transportation
Nonvascular Plants: They pass water and nutrients from cell to cell.
Mosses

6. Reproduction
Flowers and Seeds (vascular): Flowering plants produce seeds

7. Reproduction
Cones and Seeds (vascular): They make seeds and have cones instead of flowers.

8. Reproduction
Vascular Plants with Spores: Some vascular plants form spores (brown dots or streaks).

9. Reproduction
Nonvascular plants with Spores: Their spores form in cases at the tips of short stalks. Each spore case holds hundreds of spores.