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nonvascular plants are plants that not need vascular tissue to transport 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 contact with the plants.

Nearly all earth’s plant life tend to be vascular plants, including all flowering and fruiting plants, as well as any plant with a woody exterior.

For that reason there are hardly any members of the non vascular plant family, including only mosses, liverworts, hornworts, and algae.

Although some nonvascular plants appear to have leaves, these leaves are misleading, and so are incorrect leaves. on vascular plants are considered and often referred to as “lower plants”. In this context, “lower plant” describes their order of appearance on earth, rather than their physical height. You will need to note that not all “lower plants” are non vascular plants. Many times ferns along with other vascular plants are referred to as “lower plants” that may oftentimes cause confusion.

This may be one of the reasons the definition of “nonvascular plants” is no longer widely used in the scientific community.

Yet another popular point of confusion is whether fungi can be a non vascular plant, because it turns out it's not. It really is now widely accepted that these fungi have a very different biology from non vascular plants.

There are 3 main distinctions between non vascular plants and non vascular plants, and it is these following distinctions that make every bit of difference.