dicotyledons
Broad-leaved flowering plants
Dicotyledons are flowering plants whose seeds contain two embryonic leaves (cotyledons).
The group includes most familiar trees, shrubs, and garden plants—oaks, roses, beans, sunflowers.
Dicots typically have leaves with branching veins, flower parts in multiples of four or five, and a ring of vascular tissue in the stem.
Often shortened to dicots.
Plants producing covered seeds
- flowering plantsSeed-bearing plants with blooms
- cotyledonsEmbryonic plant's first leaves
- seed leavesEmbryo's first leaf structures
- taprootMain descending root
broad leaves · woody stems · herbaceous · cambium · xylem · phloem · stomata · chlorophyll
Embryonic plant's first leaves
- seed leavesEmbryo's first leaf structures
- seedlingRecently sprouted young plant
- plumuleEmbryonic plant shoot
- radicleEmbryonic plant root
hypogeal · sprouting · emergence · photosynthetic · endosperm · seed coat · germinating
Plants producing covered seeds
- monocotyledonsSingle embryonic leaf plants
- gymnospermsSeed plants lacking ovaries
- phylogeneticsScience of ancestral relationships
- cladisticsClassification by common descent
Quercus genus member
- mapleSap-yielding hardwood tree
- roseStood up, or fragrant bloom
- sunflowerTall daisy-family plant
- beanEdible legume seed
tomato · apple · magnolia · buttercup · cabbage · cotton · tobacco · carrot
Formation of distinct species
- phylogenyEvolutionary relationships among organisms
- adaptationFitting to new conditions
- divergenceSeparation from common origin
- radiationEnergy propagation through space
fossil record · paleobotany · ancestry · common ancestor · Cretaceous · diversification · coevolution · extinction
angiosperms
Plants producing covered seeds
- flowering plantsSeed-bearing plants with blooms
- cotyledonsEmbryonic plant's first leaves
- seed leavesEmbryo's first leaf structures
taproot · broad leaves · woody stems · herbaceous · cambium · xylem · phloem · stomata · chlorophyll · photosynthesis
cotyledons
Embryonic plant's first leaves
- seed leavesEmbryo's first leaf structures
- seedlingRecently sprouted young plant
- plumuleEmbryonic plant shoot
radicle · hypogeal · sprouting · emergence · photosynthetic · endosperm · seed coat · germinating
angiosperms
Plants producing covered seeds
- monocotyledonsSingle embryonic leaf plants
- gymnospermsSeed plants lacking ovaries
- phylogeneticsScience of ancestral relationships
cladistics · classification · lineage · monophyletic · flowering plants
oak
Quercus genus member
bean · tomato · apple · magnolia · buttercup · cabbage · cotton · tobacco · carrot · mint
speciation
Formation of distinct species
- phylogenyEvolutionary relationships among organisms
- adaptationFitting to new conditions
- divergenceSeparation from common origin
radiation · fossil record · paleobotany · ancestry · common ancestor · Cretaceous · diversification · coevolution · extinction