1. Classifying plants

2. Flowering Plants Non-Flowering Plants
Plants can be classified as
Flowering Plants
and
Non-Flowering Plants

3. Flowering Plants They are the largest plant group.
The flowers in these plants make the seeds that help the plant reproduce.

4. Non-Flowering Plants These are plants that do not make flowers.
Even though they do not have flowers, many non-flowering plants make seeds.
Non-flowering plants can make seeds in cones.
Joint Fir
Cycad
Pine Tree

5. Non-Flowering Plants
There are non-flowering plants that DO NOT make seeds!
Mosses and ferns are non-flowering plants that do not make seeds. Mosses are small, soft plants. Ferns have leaves called fronds.
Moss and ferns do not have flowers, cones, OR seeds!
They make spores. Spores are NOT seeds! However, spores are like seeds because they can grow into new plants.
The spores usually look like brown spots underneath the leaves.

6. Non-Flowering Plants
Ferns
Spores
Moss

7. Did you know??? Flowering plants Non-flowering plants with cones
Non-flowering plants without cones – mosses and ferns
Make seeds
Make spores
Did you know???
Spores are NOT seeds.
Spores are NOT found in cones. (Plants with spores don’t have cones.)
Mosses and ferns do NOT make flowers. (They are non-flowering plants.)
Mosses and ferns do NOT make seeds. (They make spores instead.)

8. moss and strawberry plant fern and moss rose bush and fern
Here are some questions:
1. Which 2 plants have spores?
moss and strawberry plant
fern and moss
rose bush and fern

9. seeds flowers spores 2. What do mosses produce?
Here are some questions:
2. What do mosses produce?
seeds
flowers
spores

10. spore-producing plant flowering plant non-flowering plant with cones
Here are some questions:
3. How can you classify a fern?
spore-producing plant
flowering plant
non-flowering plant with cones

11. It has petals. It has spores. It has cones.
Here are some questions:
4. What does a plant have if it has seeds, but it doesn’t have flowers?
It has petals.
It has spores.
It has cones.

12. It has brown spots underneath the leaves. It has flowers.
Here are some questions:
5. How can you identify a fern?
It has cones.
It has brown spots underneath the leaves.
It has flowers.

13. fern and rose bush fern and pine tree rose bush and pine tree
Here are some questions:
6. If you see a rose bush, a fern, and a pine tree, which have seeds?
fern and rose bush
fern and pine tree
rose bush and pine tree

14. Non-flowering plants with cones make seeds. Ferns make seeds.
Here are some questions:
7. What is true about seeds?
Non-flowering plants with cones make seeds.
Ferns make seeds.
Mosses and flowering plants make seeds.