Evolution of Plants

Cooksonia

470 BCE

470 million years ago
Ordovician period

Mosses

470 BCE

The first land plants appeared around 470 million years ago, during the Ordovician period, when life was diversifying rapidly. They were non-vascular plants, like mosses and liverworts

Liverwort

470 BCE

The Marchantiophyta are a division of non-vascular land plants commonly referred to as hepatics or liverworts. Like mosses and hornworts, they have a gametophyte-dominant life cycle, in which cells of the plant carry only a single set of genetic information.

Club Mosses

410 BCE

Lycopodiopsida is a class of herbaceous vascular plants known as lycopods, lycophytes or other terms including the component lyco-. Members of the class are called clubmosses, firmosses, spikemosses and quillworts.

Ferns

360 BCE

A fern is a member of a group of vascular plants that reproduce via spores and have neither seeds nor flowers. Ferns are plants that do not have flowers.

Gymnosperms

358 BCE

The gymnosperms are a group of seed-producing plants that includes conifers, cycads, Ginkgo, and gnetophytes, forming the clade Gymnospermae, the living members of which are also known as Acrogymnospermae.

Angiosperms

145 BCE

Angiosperms are plants that produce flowers and bear their seeds in fruits. They are the largest and most diverse group within the kingdom Plantae, with about 300,000 species. Angiosperms represent approximately 80 percent of all known living green plants.

Flowering Plants

130 BCE

Flowering plants are called angiosperms. They are the largest, most diverse group in the plant kingdom, representing approximately 80% of known plants. They are vascular seed plants with both male and female reproductive organs.

Roses

1600

Rose is a prickly bush or shrub that typically bears red, pink, yellow, or white fragrant flowers, native to north temperate regions. Numerous hybrids and cultivars have been developed and are widely grown as ornamentals.

Tulips

1600

Tulips are a genus of spring-blooming perennial herbaceous bulbiferous geophytes. The flowers are usually large, showy and brightly colored, generally red, pink, yellow, or white. They often have a different colored blotch at the base of the tepals, internally.

Exotic Orchid

2000

The orchid is said to be the most exotic of all flowers. Their fragile beauty has made them a favorite corsage flower. This plant family comes in a stunning array of shapes, sizes and colors. Orchids grow wild all over the world except in the coldest climates.