The Plant Kingdom

This kingdom has organisms that are multi-cellular,

have cell walls and chlorophyll, produce their own
food, and dont physically move from one place to
another.
 Nonvascular Plants
Plants that do not have tubes to carry water up
the plant or tubes to carry food made in the
leaves down the plant.
Plants are small, simple plants without a vascular
system. They do not have a phloem or xylem.
Another characteristic of nonvascular plants that
sets them apart from vascular plants is that they
lack roots. Instead of roots, nonvascular plants
have rhizoids, which are small hairs that insert
into the substrate to keep the plant in place.
Liverworts

It develop umbrella-like
structures that produce
eggs and sperms.

Their rhizoids are very fine,

they lack stems, and they
are generally less than 10
centimeters (4 inches) tall.
Mosses

It has capsules which contain spores.

Mosses are larger nonvascular plants that
have coarser, multicelleular rhizoids that
are more like roots.
they also have tiny, photosynthetic
structures similar to leaves that encircle a
central stem-like structures.
Mosses grow in dense clumps, which help
them retain moisture.
Hornworts
It is thin thorn-like
structures.
similar in size to
liverworts.
they also have very fine
rhizhoids and lack stems.
 Nonvascular Plants plays
important role in
environment
They provide oxygen to many organisms.

Their carpetlike growth covering large

areas in hilly grounds prevent erosion and
increase the capacity of soil to hold water.
Dried Sphagnum or Peat Moss

used to wrap plants and breakable items during transport.

Gardeners use them to retain more water in the soil for
important crops.
Old, dead sphagnum form thick deposits called peat. which
used as fuel in some places.
 Vascular Plants
Plants that have tubes to carry water up and food down
the plant.
Have vascular vessels to transport water and food
throughout the plant. Within vascular plants is the
Phloem, the vessel that transports food
Xylem, which transports water.
Vascular plants have roots not only for support but also
to soak up water that is farther away from the plant.
The majority of vascular plants reproduce by creating
seeds rather than spores and are classified as either
gymnosperms or angiosperms.
Ferns
Vascular plants that reproduce by the
use of spores are characterized as ...
Ferns

Reproduce by the use of spores

or referred as seedless vascular
plant.

They can be found in moist,

shaded and mountainous areas

They exhibit diversity in size from

a few millimeters

They provide food and oxygen to

others organism