PLANT CLASSIFICATION

Depending on the type

of the stem

Depending on the way

of reproduction

GRASSES BUSHES TREESNON-FLOWERING

PLANTSFLOWERING

PLANTS

Depending on when they have

leaves

EVERGREENor

PERENNIAL

DECIDUOUS

PLANTS WITHFRUITS

PLANTS WITHOUTFRUITS

Science lesson by year 5

GRASSES

They have a soft green stem instead of a trunk. Most grasses are small. Some are so small they are less than a centimetre tall.

BUSHES

They have a woody stem. It divides into branches near the ground.

TREES

Trees have a woody, hard, thick, long trunk covering in bark. Tree branches never grow close to the ground. They start growing higher up the trunk.

EVERGREEN TREES OR

PERENNIAL

They have leaves throughout the whole year. (Their leaves appear, grow and fall throughout the year and the tree never is naked).

DECIDUOUS

The leaves grow in spring and fall from the tree in autumn. The tree is naked throughout the winter.

NON-FLOWERING PLANTS

Ferns are much bigger than mosses. They have a thick underground stem, Ferns grow near rivers and in wet places.

They reproduce through spores. Most non-flowering plants need shade and damp conditions to survive.

Mosses are very small. They have tiny leaves growing from a stem. They live on the ground, especially on rocks and covering tree trunks.

FLOWERING PLANTS

They reproduce with seeds. Seeds are made in the flowers.

PLANTS WITH FRUITS

They can be trees such as oak, bushes such as thyme and grasses such us shamrock.

Some are evergreen (the holm oak) and some are deciduous (the poplar)

Trees with fruits

PLANTS WITHOUT FRUITS

They are the conifers, such us pine tree.

They are evergreen. (They keep their leaves all the year around).

Their flowers don’t have petals.

They have pine cones.