Theophrastus classified plants by their stems (external structure).
bly looking at their leaf patterns
nonvascular and vascular
Theophrastus (370-285 B.C.), a student of Greek philosophers Plato and Aristotle, was one of the first writers of plant description. His work with plants earned him the title "Father of Botany." Altogether, Theophrastus wrote about five hundred different kinds of plants which he classified into four groups: trees, shrubs, sub-shrubs, and herbs. He also noted differences in plant tissues and between flowering and nonflowering plants.
THEOPHRASTUS - FATHER OF BOTANYTheophrastus (about 300 B.C.), among the greatest early Greek philosophers and natural scientists, is called the "father of botany." His observations and writings dealing with the medical qualities and peculiarities of herbs are unusually accurate, even in the light of present knowledge.
Lorenz Adam santiago. Theophrastus (Greek philosopher) is called the father of ancient Botany. Theophrastus who hailed from Greece is considered as the father of Botany.
There is no longer any difference in the classification system of plants and animals. Before, it was that you would use the term division for classifying plants instead of phylum,used to classify animals. Now, phylum can be used to classify plants and animals.
See if they have cell walls
Aristotle was first to classify organisms on the basis of similarities,Theophrastus classified the plants,Carolus linnaeous,margulis and Schwartz.
You classify plants by their reproduction.
Theophrastus was born in -371.
Theophrastus redivivus was created in 1659.
Theophrastus (370-285 B.C.), a student of Greek philosophers Plato and Aristotle, was one of the first writers of plant description. His work with plants earned him the title "Father of Botany." Altogether, Theophrastus wrote about five hundred different kinds of plants which he classified into four groups: trees, shrubs, sub-shrubs, and herbs. He also noted differences in plant tissues and between flowering and nonflowering plants.
''Historia plantrum'' was written by theophrastus
Theophrastus was born in 370 B.C. and was a student of Aristotle, who bequeathed to Theophrastus his writings, and designated him as his successor at his School. He was a scholar, botanist, biologist, and physicist. The most important of his books are two large botanical treatises, Enquiry into Plants, and On the Causes of Plants, which constitute the first systemization of the botanical world and were major sources for botanical knowledge during antiquity and the Middle Ages. On the strength of these works some call him the "father of botany."
lichens, corals, viruses, corals, viruses and carnivourous plants are difficult to classify :)
Scientist classify plants as producers due their ability to make their own food. They are in the autotrophic level of the nutrient cycle.
yes
Some scientists classify seaweed as plants, and some classify seaweed as protists.
THEOPHRASTUS - FATHER OF BOTANYTheophrastus (about 300 B.C.), among the greatest early Greek philosophers and natural scientists, is called the "father of botany." His observations and writings dealing with the medical qualities and peculiarities of herbs are unusually accurate, even in the light of present knowledge.