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What are common examples of nonvascular and vascular plants?

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Vascular plants, such as trees and flowering plants most people think about, have vascular vessels to transport water and food throughout the plant. Within vascular plants is the phloem, the vessel that transports food, and the xylem, which transports water. read more

Formerly, there were two large categories of non-vascular plants: bryophytes and algae. However, recent science has complicated this in two ways. Firstly, the informal grouping called bryophytes has been divided in to Bryophyta (mosses), Marchantiophyta (liverworts), and Anthocerotophyta (hornworts). read more

These are plants that are submerged in water or grow in soil with abundant water, hence the entire body can absorb water eliminating the need for vascular tissues. whereas plants belonging to Pteridophyta (ferns), Gymnosperms (conifers, cycads) and Angiosperms (fruiting plants) are vascular plants with the latter have highly developed complex vascular elements. read more

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