Evolution of Plants Timeline

  • 3000 BCE

    Sullivantia oregana

    Sullivantia oregana was first dicovered in Greece.
  • Riccia fluitans

    Known as Crystalwort moss, and lives underwater in freshwater.
  • Period: to

    Marchantia Polymorpha

    Known as the Umbrella liverwort. Both male and female plants are shaped differently.
  • Period: to

    Mayaca fluviatilis

    Mayaca fluviatilis, also known as bog moss.
  • Arctostaphylos franciscana

    Arctostaphylos franciscana, known by the common name Franciscan manzanita, is a species of manzanita.
  • Period: to

    Horn calcareous moss

    Horn calcareous moss is a species of moss.
  • Grimmia pulvinata

    Grimmia pulvinata, otherwise known as grey-cushioned grimmia or pulvinate dry rock moss.
  • Pyrola chlorantha

    Pyrola chlorantha is circumboreal and was named and described by Olaf Swartz in 1810 from a specimen collected in Sweden.
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    Lilium bolanderi

    The Lilium bolanderi is a part of the lily family, also very rare.
  • Amsinckia carinata

    Amsinckia carinata is a species of flowering plant in the borage family known by the common name Malheur Valley fiddleneck.
  • Taxiphyllum barbieri

    Taxiphyllum barbieri, also know as Java moss or Bogor moss.
  • Polytrichastrum formosum

    Polytrichastrum formosum. as known as the bank haircap moss. Found mostly in temperate latitudes in the Northern Hemisphere.
  • Period: to

    Carex livida

    Carex livida are wind pollinated, instead of bees pollinating. There are 2,000 species of Carex livida.
  • Radula perrottetii

    Radula perrottetii is a species of plant in genus Radula, a genus of liverworts.
  • Botrychium ascendens

    The Botrychium ascendens does still exists today but lives in small population groups. Rare and widely scattered in North America.