Plants


The study of plants is called botany. Plants are easily recognizable as relatively immobile, but living and growing things: they are typically green in color (at least in part) because they contain chlorophyll. These are somewhat more difficult to classify than animals, since the primary divisions based on form as trees, shrubs, and herbs cut across divisions based on other biological characteristics.	Sapience Home Site Map About Sapience Science Biology Systematics

The study of plants is called botany.

Plants are easily recognizable as relatively immobile, but living and growing things: they are typically green in color (at least in part) because they contain chlorophyll. These are somewhat more difficult to classify than animals, since the primary divisions based on form as trees, shrubs, and herbs cut across divisions based on other biological characteristics.

Nonvascular plants

These are called worts and mosses

Lower vascular plants

These include horsetails and ferns

Lower seed plants

These includes cycads, ginkgoes, and conifers. Formerly called gymnosperms

Flowering plants

Anthophyta, or angiosperms


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