1. Classification of Plants

2. What are the differences between Vascular and non-Vascular Plants?
Let’s take a closer look.
What makes them different on the outside and inside?

3. See if you can observe the differences between the two plants…
Take a close look….
See if you can observe the differences between the two plants…

4. Vascular
Non Vascular

5. Vascular
Non Vascular

6. Vascular
Non Vascular

7. Non Vascular
Vascular

8. Vascular
Non Vascular

9. What are the differences?
Non Vascular Plants
Vascular Plants
Has roots
Has stems
Has leaves
Has vascular bundles
Can transport water
Larger in size
Is better able to store water in cells
No roots
No stems
No leaves
No vascular bundles
Are unable to transport water
Smaller in size
Must live in damp conditions

10. Plant Kingdom
Non-flowering Plants
Flowering Plants

11. Non - flowering Plants Do NOT produce flowers
. 3 groups
Non - flowering Plants
Mosses
Ferns
Gymnosperms
Do NOT produce flowers

12. A plant can be divided into 3 parts

13. Examples of Mosses

14. Spore-producing capsule
Moss
spores

15. Characteristics of Mosses
.Simplest plants
.No true roots, No vascular tissues (no transport)
.Simple stems & leaves
.Have rhizoids for anchorage
.Spores from capsules (wind-dispersal)
.Damp terrestrial land

16. Fern

17. A leaf (finely divided into small parts)
Fern
A leaf (finely divided into small parts)
underground stem
root

18. spore-producing
organs
(circinate)
young leaf

19. Characteristics of Ferns
.roots, feathery leaves & underground stems
.have vascular tissues (transport & support)
.Spore-producing organ on the underside of leaves (reproduction)
.Damp & shady places

20. Gymnosperms
Pine
tree

21. needle-shaped leaves

22. Male cones (in clusters) Female cones (scattered)

23. Characteristics of Gymnosperms
.tall evergreen trees
.roots, woody stems
.needle-shaped leaves
.vascular tissues (transport)
.cones with reproductive structures
.naked seeds in female cones
.dry places

24. Flowering Plants . 2 groups Monocotyledons Dicotyledons
. roots, stems, leaves
. vascular tissues (transport)
. flowers, fruits (contain seeds)

25. Monocotyledons
Parallel veins

26. Characteristics of Monocotyledons
. one seed-leaf
leaves have parallel veins
. herbaceous plants
. e.g. grass, maize

27. Dicotyledons
Veins in network

28. Characteristics of Dicotyledons
. two seed-leaves
. leaves have veins in network
. e.g. trees, sunflower, rose

29. Plant Classification Plants Non-flowering Flowering 1 seed-leaf
2 seed-leaves
Spore-bearing
Naked seeds
Monocots
Dicots
Gymnosperms
No roots
with roots
Mosses
Ferns