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nonvascular plants are plants that do not have vascular tissue to transport water and nutrients inside itself. This is a lack of these tissues that cause nonvascular plants to only have the ability to feed and drink when their environment provides direct contact with the plants.

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

Therefore, you can find very few members of the non vascular plant family, including only mosses, liverworts, hornworts, and algae.

Though some nonvascular plants appear to have leaves, these leaves are misleading, and are not true leaves. on vascular plants are considered and often called “lower plants”. In this context, “lower plant” refers to their order of appearance on the planet, and never their physical height. It is important to remember that not totally all “lower plants” are non vascular plants. Often times ferns as well as other vascular plants are called “lower plants” which can oftentimes lead to confusion.

This may be one of many reasons the term “nonvascular plants” is not any longer widely used in the scientific community.

Yet another popular point of confusion is whether or not fungi is also a non vascular plant, as it turns out it is not. 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 that produce every bit of huge difference.