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Plants and Their Environment Plants • Living eukaryotic organisms • Chlorophyll • Manufacture their own food – Autotroph/Producer • Cell walls – Support the cell and whole structure Plants • Cannot move when environment changes • Must be able to; – Get nutrients – Reproduce – Retain moisture Ways to Group Plants • Uses – Fruit, vegetables, shrubs, flowers, turf • Physiology – Non vascular or Vascular – With or without seeds • Life Cycle – Annual, seed to production one year – Biennial, seed to storage in one year – Perennial, flowers and seeds each year Perennial • • • • • • Herbaceous Woody Deciduous Evergreen Tender Hardy Structure • Flowers, leaves, fruit, or seed • Angiosperms – Flowering • Gymnosperms – Cone – bearers • Mosses and ferns – Reproduce by spores Taxonomy Domain Kingdom Phylum/Division Class Order Family Genus Species Division Bryophytes Division Pteridophytes Subdivision Gymnosperm Subdivision Angiosperm Evolution of Plants