Ex. Moss
Ex. Fern
Ex. Pine
Ex. Daisy
Principal Characteristics: - Small plants that grow on soil, bark of trees, rocks. - Live in humid places. - No vascular tissues so each cell must get water from the environment or from a nearby cell.
- Their sporophyte and gametophyte are easy to identify. - Do not have true STEM, ROOTS or LEAVES, but they have structures that carry out the same activities. Vascular Root → Stem → → Leaf
Nonvascular Rhizoid Stemlike structure Leaflike structure
Modern Tree Fern can grow up to 24 meters tall!
(350 M.Y.A.) Fern Trees could grow up to 40m!
Fossil Fern Tree found in a Coal Mine in 1886
Schölerberg Museum of Natural History Germany 2007
The Carboniferous 354 to 290 Million Years Ago