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nonvascular plants are plants that not have vascular tissue to move water and nutrients inside itself. It is a not enough these tissues that cause nonvascular plants to only be able to feed and drink when their environment provides direct connection with the plants.

The majority of earth’s vegetation tend to be vascular plants, including all flowering and fruiting plants, as well as any plant with a woody exterior.

Therefore, you will find hardly any members of the non vascular plant family, including only mosses, liverworts, hornworts, and algae.

While some nonvascular plants may actually have leaves, these leaves are misleading, and therefore are not true leaves. on vascular plants are believed and often referred to as “lower plants”. In this context, “lower plant” identifies their order of appearance on the planet, and not their physical height. You should note that not absolutely all “lower plants” are non vascular plants. Often ferns and other vascular plants are referred to as “lower plants” which can oftentimes lead to confusion.

This can be one of many reasons the word “nonvascular plants” is no longer widely used in the scientific community.

Yet another popular point of confusion is whether fungi is also a non vascular plant, since it turns out it isn't. It's now widely accepted why these fungi have a very different biology from non vascular plants.

You will find 3 main distinctions between non vascular plants and non vascular plants, and it is these following distinctions which make just of big difference.