PLANT  GROUPS

Ë There are about 375,000 species of plant. The biggest plant family is the flowering plants or angiosperms, with over 250,000 species. Other important plant groups are mosses and liverworts (seen here),ferns and horsetails and conifers and cycads. Fungi used to be classed as plants,but as they cannot make their own food, they are now put in a class of their own, which includes about 100,000 species.