vascularplants. seedless vascular plants vascular plants, such as ferns are much better adapted to...
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VASCULAR VASCULAR
PLANTSPLANTS
SEEDLESS VASCULAR SEEDLESS VASCULAR PLANTSPLANTS
Vascular plants, such as ferns are much Vascular plants, such as ferns are much better adapted to life on land than better adapted to life on land than nonvascular plants.nonvascular plants.
Vascular tissue allows materials to be Vascular tissue allows materials to be transported quickly and effectively transported quickly and effectively throughout the body of a plant.throughout the body of a plant.
Characteristics of Characteristics of Vascular PlantsVascular Plants
They can grow much taller than mosses They can grow much taller than mosses and hornwortsand hornworts
They have true leaves, stems and rootsThey have true leaves, stems and roots Have a waxy coating on their leaves to Have a waxy coating on their leaves to
prevent water lossprevent water loss Reproduce by sporesReproduce by spores
Two types of vascular Two types of vascular tissuetissue
XYLEM: carries XYLEM: carries water and minerals water and minerals throughout the plantthroughout the plant Only goes in 1 Only goes in 1
direction….UPdirection….UP
XYLEM
Two types of vascular Two types of vascular tissuetissue
PHLOEM: carries PHLOEM: carries food throughout the food throughout the plantplant Goes in both Goes in both
directionsdirections
PHLOEM
Types of seedless Types of seedless vascular plantsvascular plants
Whisk FernsWhisk Ferns: can be : can be found in swamplands found in swamplands and dry rocky cliffsand dry rocky cliffs Rhizomes: horizontal Rhizomes: horizontal
stem of a plant that is stem of a plant that is usually found usually found underground underground
Types of seedless Types of seedless vascular plantsvascular plants
Club MossesClub Mosses: small, : small, creeping, terrestrial creeping, terrestrial plants plants
Types of seedless Types of seedless vascular plantsvascular plants
HorsetailsHorsetails: they are : they are erect, jointed, brittle erect, jointed, brittle and grooved, hollow and grooved, hollow except at the jointsexcept at the joints
Types of seedless Types of seedless vascular plantsvascular plants
FernsFerns: have true : have true leaves but lack leaves but lack flowers and seedsflowers and seeds Fronds: part of fern Fronds: part of fern
leaf that has the leaf that has the sporesspores
FiddleheadsFiddleheads
Parts of FernsParts of Ferns
Fronds: part of fern Fronds: part of fern leaf that has the leaf that has the sporesspores
Parts of FernsParts of Ferns
Fiddleheads: Fiddleheads: uncurled baby fernsuncurled baby ferns
Reproduction in plants Reproduction in plants without seedswithout seeds
Alteration of Generation: sporophyte Alteration of Generation: sporophyte (produces spores) turn into a (produces spores) turn into a gametophyte (produces a new plant)gametophyte (produces a new plant)
Sexual reproduction that requires water Sexual reproduction that requires water for the sperm to reach the eggfor the sperm to reach the egg
Helpful effects of FernsHelpful effects of Ferns
Popular houseplantsPopular houseplants Products from fern are used to grow Products from fern are used to grow
other plantsother plants Used in crop to house a bacteria that Used in crop to house a bacteria that
acts as a fertilizeracts as a fertilizer Some ferns can be eaten as foodSome ferns can be eaten as food