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Please see the plant page for a discussion of the different classification methods.
The correlation between various methods of classifying plants. Phylum Tissue Structure "Seed" Structure Stature Bryophyta
(mosses)Non-vascular
(Bryophytes)Spore Producers Moss-like Psilophyta
whisk fernsVascular Plants
(Tracheophytes)Fern- and Tree-like Lycopodophyta
(club ferns)Sphenophyta
(horsetails)Filicinophyta
(ferns)Cycadophyta
(cycads)Naked seeds
(Gymnosperms)Ginkophyta
(Ginkoes)Tree-like Coniferophyta
(conifers)Tree- and shrub-like Gnetophyta
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Angiospermophyta
(flowering plants)Dicotyledons
(two seed-leaves)Monocotyledons
(single seed-leaf)Covered seeds
(Angiosperms)Tree-, shrub-, vine-, and herb-like Note that some of the stature classifications are rather arbitrary. For example, a horsetail probably looks more like a herbacious plant than a fern and cycads may look more like small palms than ferns. Some tropical ferns can be quite tall, resembling trees.
