The African Plant Database lists 65,000 species of flowering plants, ferns and conifers found on the African continent and ...

The lush, tropical regions of Central and South America have long dazzled scientists with their plant diversity. These ...

Unlike animals, plants lack a metabolically active pump like the heart to move fluid in their vascular system. Instead, water movement is passively driven by pressure and chemical potential gradients.

There are about 391,000 species of vascular plants currently known to science, of which about 369,000 species (or 94 percent) are flowering plants, according to a report by the Royal Botanic ...

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Clubmosses, as the earliest vascular plant group, have leaves with only a single vein of xylem down the middle, in contrast to the more complexly veined leaves of trees and even ferns. Nevertheless, ...

Although many of the early seedless vascular plants have gone extinct, you can still find some of them growing today. Like, lycophytes were huge three hundred million years ago—literally.

Seven to nine percent of all vascular plant species occurring in Europe are globally threatened, according to a new study. Researchers combined Red Lists of endangered plant species in Europe with ...

The genome of vascular plants bears witness to the evolution of viruses of the family Caulimoviridae. ScienceDaily . Retrieved June 2, 2025 from www.sciencedaily.com / releases / 2018 / 01 ...

In fact, plants developed their complex vascular network because of evolutionary pressure, from drought, which in turn allowed them to live and thrive on dry land. Brett Huggett works with students in ...