Nonvascular Plants and Their Life Cycle

Nonvascular plants include some of the earliest plants on Earth. Today, this group includes liverworts, mosses, and hornworts. These plants are also called bryophytes. They have no true roots, leaves, or stems because they lack extensive vascular tissue.

Bryophytes reproduce with spores instead o...

We can group plant life on Earth into three main categories: nonvascular plants, seedless vascular plants, and seed plants.

Although seed plants dominate most modern landscapes, nonvascular plants were among the earliest colonizers of land and helped shape early terrestrial ecosystems.

Today, nonvascular plants include three main gro...