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Embryophyte facts for kids

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Embryophyta
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Plantae
Subkingdom:
Embryophyta

Embryophytes are land plants. They are they things most people call plants, the bryophytes, ferns, gymnosperms and flowering plants. Another way of looking at it is to say they are the Viridiplantae minus the algae. They include the Bryophytes and the vascular plants.

Images for kids

  • Garden Primeval - US Botanic Gardens 37

    Moss, clubmoss, ferns and cycads in a greenhouse

  • Barbula spadicea (Sporenkapseln) IMG 0434

    Most bryophytes, such as these mosses, produce stalked sporophytes from which their spores are released.

  • Lycopodiella inundata 002

    Lycopodiella inundata, a lycophyte

  • Unidentified fern, Cambridge University Botanic Garden

    Athyrium filix-femina, unrolling young frond

  • Aleppo Pines grove, Pinet, Hérault 02

    Pine forest in France

  • Autumn Conker - geograph.org.uk - 370125

    Large seed of a horse chestnut, Aesculus hippocastanum

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