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Mo4-L5a: How Do Plant Types Differ?
The life cycle of a flowering plant includes both Key Concept
gametophyte and sporophyte stages.
How Do Plant Types Differ?
What are the differences between life cycles of
seedless and seed plants?
Plants that grow from a seed and produce flowers in
one growing season are called annuals.
Plants that take two growing seasons to produce
flowers are known as biennials.
Perennials are plants that grow and bud for many
years.
Mustard
Marigold
Biennials (foxglove, dame’s rocket)
Perennials (peony, iris, daylily)
Winter Summer Winter Summer Winter
SUMMARY
How Do Plant Types Different?
There are two stages in the life cycle of every Annuals, biennials, and
plant—the gametophyte stage and the perennials are the different
sporophyte stage. growth cycles of plants.
Most seed plants produce
flowers.
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