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nonvascular plants are plants that do not need vascular tissue to move water and nutrients inside itself. It is a lack of these tissues that cause nonvascular plants to only manage to feed and drink when their environment provides direct connection with the plants.

The majority of earth’s plants are usually vascular plants, including all flowering and fruiting plants, as well as any plant with a woody exterior.

Therefore, there are not many 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 incorrect leaves. on vascular plants are considered and frequently called “lower plants”. In this context, “lower plant” refers to their order of appearance on earth, rather than their physical height. You should observe that not absolutely all “lower plants” are non vascular plants. Often ferns and other vascular plants are called “lower plants” that may oftentimes lead to confusion.

This can be one of the reasons the term “nonvascular plants” is no longer widely used in the scientific community.

Another popular point of confusion is if fungi can also be a non vascular plant, as it ends up it is not. It's now widely accepted these fungi have a very different biology from non vascular plants.

There are 3 main distinctions between non vascular plants and non vascular plants, and it's also these following distinctions that make every bit of difference.