Botany
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Botany is the study of the life of plants or the Kingdom Plantae. It is a fundamental branch of biology, otherwise known as plant biology or plant sciences.
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Fields of Botany
Kingdom Plantae
The Kingdom Plantae includes the - Mosses, Ferns, Flowering plants, Conifers. Instead of phyla, the plant kingdom is broken down into "divisions".
Embryophytes Land plants
Divisions
- Bryophytes - Non-vascular plants
- Marchantiophyta - liverworts
- Anthocerotophyta - hornworts
- Bryophyta: Plants with very small leaves and stems, with no roots and no flowers. Usually grow very low to the ground. Includes: Mosses.
- Tracheophytes - Vascular plant
- Lycopodiophyta: Small plants with green, branched stems, scale-like leaves, and no flowers. Usually grow very low to the ground. Includes: Club Mosses, Quillworts, and Spikemosses.
- Equisetophyta - horsetails
- Pteridophyta - "True ferns" Plants that have roots and stems, but do not have flowers or seeds. Instead, they spread with spores. Includes Ferns.
- Psilotophyta - whisk ferns
- Ophioglossophyta - adderstongues
- Spermatophyta Seed plants
- Pteridospermatophyta - extinct seed fern
- Coniferophyta (AKA Pinophyta) - Plants that bear cones. Includes: Pine Trees and Cedars.
- Cycadophyta - cycads
- Ginkgophyta - ginkgo
- Gnetophyta - gnetae
- Magnoliophyta - All "flowering" plants. These plants have leaves, stems, and roots. After flowering, they form fruits with seeds. Includes most crops, trees, shrubs, grasses, garden plants, and weeds.
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