Plants can be classified into different groups depending on their stem, reproduction method, and whether they have leaves year-round. The main groups are grasses, bushes, trees, non-flowering plants like ferns and mosses, and flowering plants. Flowering plants can further be divided into those with fruits like oak trees and thyme bushes, and those without fruits like pine trees that have pine cones instead.

1. Science lesson by year 5 PLANT CLASSIFICATION Depending on the type of the stem Depending on the way of reproduction GRASSES BUSHES TREES NON-FLOWERING PLANTS FLOWERING PLANTS Depending on when they have leaves EVERGREEN or PERENNIAL DECIDUOUS PLANTS WITH FRUITS PLANTS WITHOUT FRUITS

2. GRASSES They have a soft green stem instead of a trunk. Most grasses are small. Some are so small they are less than a centimetre tall.

6. BUSHES They have a woody stem. It divides into branches near the ground.

8. TREES Trees have a woody, hard, thick, long trunk covering in bark. Tree branches never grow close to the ground. They start growing higher up the trunk.

9. EVERGREEN TREES OR PERENNIAL They have leaves throughout the whole year. (Their leaves appear, grow and fall throughout the year and the tree never is naked).

11. DECIDUOUS The leaves grow in spring and fall from the tree in autumn. The tree is naked throughout the winter.

13. NON-FLOWERING PLANTS Ferns are much bigger than mosses. They have a thick underground stem, Ferns grow near rivers and in wet places. They reproduce through spores. Most non-flowering plants need shade and damp conditions to survive.

14. Mosses are very small. They have tiny leaves growing from a stem. They live on the ground, especially on rocks and covering tree trunks.

15. FLOWERING PLANTS They reproduce with seeds. Seeds are made in the flowers.

16. PLANTS WITH FRUITS They can be trees such as oak, bushes such as thyme and grasses such us shamrock. Some are evergreen (the holm oak) and some are deciduous (the poplar)

17. Trees with fruits

18. PLANTS WITHOUT FRUITS They are the conifers, such us pine tree. They are evergreen. (They keep their leaves all the year around). Their flowers don’t have petals. They have pine cones.