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Conifers
The conifer phylum includes
pines, firs, and spruce. It would
be wrong to say that these
trees do not have leaves. The
needles of many conifers are
Characteristics of
Conifers
  vascular yes
  seeds yes
  flowers no
special leaves. A conifer is a vascular plant
that reproduces using cones and seeds.
California
Redwood
 
Flowering Plants
This is certainly the most colorful phylum of plants! About 230,000 species of flowering plants have
  cone
been identified. All flowering plants are
vascular. These plants use their flowers
to make seeds for reproduction. Mosses,
ferns, and conifers don’t produce flowers.
Characteristics of
Flowering Plants
  vascular yes
  seeds yes
  flowers yes
    Fiddlehead Tulip
  1. How would you classify a plant that has seeds,
 is vascular, and has needle-like leaves?
  2. If one fern produces an average of 500,000
 spores, about how many spores could 10 ferns make?