Aquilegia vulgaris
Behind the Tansy at Al BorlinbotonyCalochortus nuttalliiCalystegia silvaticaClematis lasianthaCytisus scopariusEricameria nauseosaflowerGinkgo bilobaHypochaeris glabra
Japanese Knotweed near Swamp CreekKali tragus
Labrador violet in the backyardleafLotus corniculatusmossNon-animals like plants and fungi do not have nerve cells.One important event in this period was the initial establishment of terrestrial life in what is known as the Silurian-Devonian Terrestrial Revolution: vascular plants emerged from more primitive land plants, dikaryan fungi started expanding and diversifying along with glomeromycotan fungi, and three groups of arthropods (myriapods, arachnids and hexapods) became fully terrestrialized.Physocarpus capitatusPieris japonicaPlant (Wikipedia)
Plants are predominantly photosynthetic eukaryotes forming the kingdom Plantae. Many are multicellular. Historically, the plant kingdom encompassed all living things that were not animals, and included algae and fungi. All current definitions exclude the fungi and some of the algae. By one definition, plants form the clade Viridiplantae (Latin for “green plants”) which consists of the green algae and the embryophytes or land plants. The latter include hornworts, liverworts, mosses, lycophytes, ferns, conifers and other gymnosperms, and flowering plants. A definition based on genomes includes the Viridiplantae, along with the red algae and the glaucophytes, in the clade Archaeplastida.Reynoutria japonicaRubus armeniacus
Staghorn sumac in Sherwood ParkStyrax japonicusTanacetum vulgareThere’s no such thing as a tree (phylogenetically) (eukaryotewritesblog.com)
“Trees” are not a coherent phylogenetic category. On the evolutionary tree of plants, trees are regularly interspersed with things that are absolutely, 100% not trees.
Through the metal at Meadowdale
Woodbine near the parking lot