Non-Vascular Plants

NON-FLOWERING PLANTS Survey Science

Facts & Quiz

No single coherent group among the more than 350,000 species of plants can be labeled as no-flowering plants. Yet about on third-over 100,000 species-reproduce without bearing flowers.

These range from microscopic bacteria to the largest of all trees, the redwoods. Included are various groups of algae, and fungi, mosses, liverworts, hornworts, ferns and their allies, cycads, conifers, and scores of smaller, rare