How do we classify Plants?

5th Grade

Scientists study what is INSIDE plants to divide them into 2 groups. What are these 2 groups called?

• 1) Vascular plants

• 2) Nonvascular plants

Moss

Corn

What is the difference between the microscopic view of the moss and the microscopic view of the corn?

2 types of plants

• Moss = tightly packed cells that look like a jigsaw puzzle NONVASCULAR

• Corn = tube-like cells that tunnel up and down the stem VASCULAR

Vascular = “composed of or containing vessels”

• Water is taken in by a plant’s roots and moves up a set of tubes toward the plant’s leaves, flowers, and other parts

• Foods made in the leaves move down the other set of tubes, leading to the plant’s parts

• VASCULAR TISSUE

Vascular Plants have tubes that…

• Transport water and nutrients over a distance

Vascular Plants: have roots, stems, leaves

Nonvascular Plants

• Plants that do not have vascular tissues (tubes to connect different parts of the plant and transport materials)

In Nonvascular Plants, water from the outside passes directly into the cells…