The document compares characteristics of 6 plant types: moss, fern, grass, orchid, pine needles, and carnation. It examines their ability to photosynthesize, produce seeds or spores, have vascular structures like veins, produce flowers, and have dark pigmented flowers. Moss and ferns were found to not produce seeds or have parallel vein patterns, while grass, orchid, and carnation had various combinations of seeds, vascular structures, flowers, and dark pigmented flowers.
The document compares characteristics of 6 plant types: moss, fern, grass, orchid, pine needles, and carnation. It examines their ability to photosynthesize, produce seeds or spores, have vascular structures like veins, produce flowers, and have dark pigmented flowers. Moss and ferns were found to not produce seeds or have parallel vein patterns, while grass, orchid, and carnation had various combinations of seeds, vascular structures, flowers, and dark pigmented flowers.
The document compares characteristics of 6 plant types: moss, fern, grass, orchid, pine needles, and carnation. It examines their ability to photosynthesize, produce seeds or spores, have vascular structures like veins, produce flowers, and have dark pigmented flowers. Moss and ferns were found to not produce seeds or have parallel vein patterns, while grass, orchid, and carnation had various combinations of seeds, vascular structures, flowers, and dark pigmented flowers.
Ability to Produces Vascular Leaf veins have Produces Produces flowers
photosynt seeds* structure** an obvious flowers with dark
hesize parallel pigments (green) pattern*** (blue/indigo) Yes No No No no #1 No Moss Yes No No No no #2 Yes Fern Yes Yes Yes No no #3 No Grass Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes #4 Yes Orchid Yes Yes No No No #5 Yes Pine needles Yes Yes Yes Yes No #6 Yes Carnati on *Examples of seeds will be present if the plant makes seeds. Spores are not considered seeds. **Vascular structure indicated by the ability to have large size, stems, large leaves as well as any obvious veins in the leaves ***See the image to the right for a comparison of common vein patterns