Post on 17-Jan-2015
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PLANT CLASSIFICATION
Depending on the type
of the stem
Depending on the way
of reproduction
GRASSES BUSHES TREESNON-FLOWERING
PLANTSFLOWERING
PLANTS
Depending on when they have
leaves
EVERGREENor
PERENNIAL
DECIDUOUS
PLANTS WITHFRUITS
PLANTS WITHOUTFRUITS
Science lesson by year 5
GRASSES
They have a soft green stem instead of a trunk. Most grasses are small. Some are so small they are less than a centimetre tall.
BUSHES
They have a woody stem. It divides into branches near the ground.
TREES
Trees have a woody, hard, thick, long trunk covering in bark. Tree branches never grow close to the ground. They start growing higher up the trunk.
EVERGREEN TREES OR
PERENNIAL
They have leaves throughout the whole year. (Their leaves appear, grow and fall throughout the year and the tree never is naked).
DECIDUOUS
The leaves grow in spring and fall from the tree in autumn. The tree is naked throughout the winter.
NON-FLOWERING PLANTS
Ferns are much bigger than mosses. They have a thick underground stem, Ferns grow near rivers and in wet places.
They reproduce through spores. Most non-flowering plants need shade and damp conditions to survive.
Mosses are very small. They have tiny leaves growing from a stem. They live on the ground, especially on rocks and covering tree trunks.
FLOWERING PLANTS
They reproduce with seeds. Seeds are made in the flowers.
PLANTS WITH FRUITS
They can be trees such as oak, bushes such as thyme and grasses such us shamrock.
Some are evergreen (the holm oak) and some are deciduous (the poplar)
Trees with fruits
PLANTS WITHOUT FRUITS
They are the conifers, such us pine tree.
They are evergreen. (They keep their leaves all the year around).
Their flowers don’t have petals.
They have pine cones.