Seedless Plants

How are plants different from animals? A plant grows in one place, but an animal moves around. Plants make their own food. Animals do not. Plants have materials called pigments, which help them to make food through a process called photosynthesis. Chlorophyll, the most common pigment, is green.

Some of the plants you know best, such as grass and trees, make seeds. That is how they reproduce, or multiply. Other plants do not make seeds. These seedless plants include mosses, liverworts, club mosses, ferns, and horsetails. They reproduce by forming spores. Spores are often kept in small, bumpy cases on these plants’ leaves or stems.

Many different kinds, or species, of mosses are growing on and around this tree.View Larger Image

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