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