nonflowering
Lacking reproductive blooms
Nonflowering describes plants that reproduce without producing flowers or seeds, instead spreading through spores, as ferns and mosses do.
The term distinguishes these plants from the flowering majority of the plant kingdom.
The shady corner of the garden was filled with nonflowering plants like ferns and club mosses.
Spore-spreading vascular plant
- mossSpore-bearing ground cover
- lichenSymbiotic rock dweller
- algaePrimitive aquatic photosynthesizers
- fungiSpore-reproducing decomposers
liverwort · hornwort · horsetail · clubmoss · seaweed · kelp · mushroom · mold
In earliest form
- ancientVery old indeed
- ancestralOf one's forebears
- DevonianGeologic period, 419-359 million years ago
- CarboniferousCoal-depositing geological period
vascular · nonvascular · seedless · phylogeny · paleobotany · fossil · extinct · early
Asexual reproductive cell
- gametophyteHaploid reproductive generation
- rhizoidAnchoring filament in bryophytes
- myceliumFungal filament network
- coneTapered solid, circular base
frond · asexual · vegetative
fern
Spore-spreading vascular plant
fungi · liverwort · hornwort · horsetail · clubmoss · seaweed · kelp · mushroom · mold · mildew
primitive
In earliest form
Carboniferous · vascular · nonvascular · seedless · phylogeny · paleobotany · fossil · extinct · early · basal
spore
Asexual reproductive cell
- gametophyteHaploid reproductive generation
- rhizoidAnchoring filament in bryophytes
- myceliumFungal filament network
cone · frond · asexual · vegetative
pine
Cone-bearing evergreen
cypress · redwood · sequoia · juniper · yew · hemlock · larch · arborvitae · evergreen · needleleaf
nonfloweringflowering
Producing reproductive structures
flower-bearing · angiosperm · blooming · blossoming · in bloom
flower, flourish, flowering, floral, florist, efflorescence, gymnosperm, flowerless, gymnosperms