1. Plant Classification
Botany:
the study of plants

2. Ways Plants are Beneficial:
Provide most of man's food
Release O2 needed by man and animals
Plants are raw materials for many manufactured goods
Plants are a source of beauty

3. Misconceptions: All green things are plants. All plants are green.
All plants are autotrophic.

4. The Main Groupings of Plant Phyla

5. Non-vascular plants
Phylum Bryophyta
moss
liverwort
hornwort

6. Vascular plants without seeds
Phylum Psilophyta
whiskfern

7. Vascular plants without seeds
Phylum Lycophyta
Ground pines

8. Vascular plants without seeds
Phylum Sphenophyta
Horsetails

9. Vascular plants without seeds
Phylum Pterophyta
ferns

10. Vascular plants with seeds
Phylum Coniferophyta
Cone-bearing plants

11. Vascular plants with seeds
Phylum Cycadophyta
cycads

12. Vascular plants with seeds
Phylum Ginkgophyta
Ginkgo

13. Vascular plants with seeds
Phylum Anthophyta
angiosperms
Monocot
Dicot