Northwestern Health Sciences University. HerbNET - The Most Comprehensive Site for All Things Herbal. North Country Herbalist Guild. Minnesota Herbalist Home. UCMP Web Lift to Taxa. Systematics of the Plantae. Move deeper into the systematics of plant groups by selecting one of the boxes containing a picture!
Plants have chlorophyll and an alternation of generations. They differ from the "green algae" in that the young sporophyte -- or diploid plant -- begins its development within the tissues of its parent gametophyte --or haploid plant. They also differ in that the sporophyte and gametophyte are heteromorphic, that is the two generations look and develop differently from each other. PlantSystematics.org.