Botany vocab
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Angiosperm- A plant that has flowers and produces seeds
Gymnosperm- A plant that has seeds that are typically surrounded with a cone
Cotyledon- An embryonic leaf in seed bearing plants, one or more of which are the first leaves
to appear from a germinating seed.
Bryophyte- A small flowerless green plant, which comprises the mosses and liverworts.
Monocot- A flowering plant with an embryo that bears a single cotyledon (seed leaf).
Dicot- A flowering plant that has a pair of leaves, or cotyledons in the embryo of the seed.
Seedless vascular- Plants that contain vascular tissue, but don’t produce flowers or seeds. These
plants reproduce using haploid, unicellular spores instead of seeds.
Vascular- Plants that are also known as tube plants (tracheophytes). The plants have tissues
such as xylem and phloem.
Nonvascular-Plants that do not have xylem or phloem.
Nonvascular
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Height: Short
Xylem/Phloem: Absent
Ability to live in dry environments: No
Vascular
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Height: Tall
Xylem/Phloem: Present
Ability to live in dry environments: Yes
Dicot
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Number of seed leaves: 2
Type of leaf venation: Net veins.
Number of flower parts: they come in multiples of 4’s and 5’s.
Type of roots: tap roots (single root).
Monocot
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Number of seed leaves: 1
Type of leaf venation: Parallel veins.
Number of flower parts: They come in multiples of 3’s.
Type of roots: Thin (wide) root network.