Vascular plants
Vascular Plants Vascular plants
Plants producing seeds (Spermatophyta)
Ovules (and seeds) enclosed within carpels (fruits); the carpels bearing stigmas upon which the pollen lodges. Pollen produced in the anthers of stamens. Carpels and stamens usually surrounded by a perianth; the whole constituting a flower which may be uni- or bi-sexual (= angiosperms) Magnoliophyta
Flowers usually 3-merous. Leaf venation usually parallel. Embryo with 1 cotyledon Plants usually herbaceous rarely woody and then ± unbranched) Liliopsida
Ovary inferior
Ovary superior