Ferns and other non-flowering plants
This group consists of modern-day descendants of some very ancient forms of plantlife. They pre-date flowering plants in their evolutionary ancestry and, rather than producing flowers that have poolen, they produce spores in a similar manner to fungi. Generally these plants can be identified by their leaves and other vegetative parts.
Within the sections below, the pictures are grouped so that similar-looking (though not necessarily closely-related) plants will be near each other. This should help to reduce your search time. Also, in cases where there are a number of very similar species, a representative species is shown here, but clicking on it will take you to a page that tells you how to tell the more difficult species apart.
If you still can't find your plant, you either have something very interesting that you may wish to tell us about, or we just haven't got a picture of it yet - we're still working on the latter!!
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| Horsetails |
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| Ferns |
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Chain Fern |
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