1. Plant Phyla Project By: Zak Klassen

2. Bryophyta Common name: Moss. Scientific name: Bryophyta. Major group: Seedless nonvascular. Distinguishing characteristics: No leaves, can look like clumps of grass, tiny trees, or strands of green yarn. Habitat: Anywhere that soil, rocks, or tree trucks are present. Reproduction: Asexually and Sexually. Plants in phylum: Dicranoweisia cirrata, Sphagnum, Fisidens adianthoides. Notable Info: Can survive in deserts and tundra. Sphagnum turns to peat, a useful byproduct.

3. Hepatophyta Common name: Liverworts. Scientific name: Hepatophyta. Major group: Seedless nonvascular. Distinguishing characteristics: Thallose or leafy. Thallose- lobes of a liver flat on ground. Leafy- 3 rows of stem like and leaf like structures. Habitat: Damp environments- wet rocks, greenhouse flowerpots, etc. Reproduction: Sexual and vegetative. Plants in phylum: Marchantia, Riccardia pinguis. Notable info: Eggs or reproduction are produced on umbrella-like structures on thallose.

4. Anthocerophyta Common name- Hornworts. Scientific name: Anthocerophyta. Major group: Seedless nonvascular. Distinguishing characteristics: Grow low to ground, main body has flat, lobed appearance. Small green horns rise above flat plant body. Habitat: Tropical forests and along streams. Reproduction: Sexual, asexual, and fragmentation. Plants in phylum: Dendroceros, Phaeoceros laevis, Nostoc. Notable info: Only about 100 species.

5. Lycophyta Common name: Club moss. Scientific name: Lycophyta. Major group: Seedless vascular. Distinguishing characteristics: Look like small pine trees. Habitat: Moist, shaded woodlands. Reproduction: Sexual. Plants in phylum: Cernuum, Varium, Volublle. Notable info: Some ancient species looked like modern trees. They were wiped out when the Carboniferous climate cooled.

6. Pterophyta Common name: Ferns. Scientific name: Pterophyta. Major group: Seedless vascular. Distinguishing characteristics: Large leaves called fronds. Newly-forming fronds, called fiddleheads, uncurl as they grow. Habitat: Common forests and tropics. Reproduction: Sexually or asexually. Plants in phylum: Psilotum, Equisetum, Polypodium vulgare Notable info: Ferns are the most successful survivors of the Coniferous period. Some are grown as houseplants.

7. Cycadophyta Common name: Cycads. Scientific name: Cyadophyta. Major group: Cone-bearing seed plants Distinguishing characteristics: Look like palm trees with giant cones. Habitat: Tropical areas in the Americas, Asia, Africa, and Australia. Reproduction: Sexually or asuxually. Plants in phylum: Encephalartos and Ceratozamias. Notable info: Provided good food for dinosaurs and many are now endangered because of their slow growth and loss of habitat.

8. Ginkophyta Common name: Ginkoes. Scientific name: Ginkophyta. Major group: Cone-bearing seed plants. Distinguishing characteristics: Looks like it’s fossil ancestors. Habitat: China. Reproduction: Sexually or asexually. Plants in phylum: Ginko biloba. Notable info: Only one species still exists today.

9. Coniferophyta Common name: Conifers. Scientific name: Coniferophyta. Major group: Cone-bearing seed plants. Distinguishing characteristics: Needlelike leaves; Grow quickly. Habitat: High altitudes, sloping hillsides, poor soil. Reproduction: Sexually or asexually. Plants in phylum: Pines, spruce, redwood. Notable info: Largest plant in world in Sequoia National Park.

10. Anthophyta Common name: Flowering plants. Scientific name: Anthophyta. Major group: Angiosperms; Flowering plants. Distinguishing characteristics: Flowers. Habitat: Almost everywhere. Reproduction: Sexually or asexually. Plants in phylum: Flowers and fruit bearing trees. Notable info: Play a huge role on the dominance and diversity of flowering plants today.