vascular plant, tracheophyte

green plant having a vascular system: ferns, gymnosperms, angiosperms

• pteridophyte, nonflowering plant — plants having vascular tissue and reproducing by spores
• spermatophyte, phanerogam, seed plant — plant that reproduces by means of seeds not spores
• herb, herbaceous plant — a plant lacking a permanent woody stem; many are flowering garden plants or potherbs; some having medicinal properties; some are pests
• halophyte — plant growing naturally in very salty soil
• succulent — a plant adapted to arid conditions and characterized by fleshy water-storing tissues that act as water reservoirs
• cultivar — a variety of a plant developed from a natural species and maintained under cultivation
• cultivated plant — plants that are grown for their produce
• weed — any plant that crowds out cultivated plants
• evergreen, evergreen plant — a plant having foliage that persists and remains green throughout the year
• deciduous plant — a plant having foliage that is shed annually at the end of the growing season
• vine — weak-stemmed plant that derives support from climbing, twining, or creeping along a surface
• creeper — any plant (as ivy or periwinkle) that grows by creeping
• woody plant, ligneous plant — a plant having hard lignified tissues or woody parts especially stems
• geophyte — a perennial plant that propagates by underground bulbs or tubers or corms
• desert plant, xerophyte, xerophytic plant, xerophile, xerophilous plant — plant adapted for life with a limited supply of water; compare hydrophyte and mesophyte
• mesophyte, mesophytic plant — land plant growing in surroundings having an average supply of water; compare xerophyte and hydrophyte
• aquatic plant, water plant, hydrophyte, hydrophytic plant — a plant that grows partly or wholly in water whether rooted in the mud, as a lotus, or floating without anchorage, as the water hyacinth
• tuberous plant — plant growing from a tuber
• bulbous plant — plant growing from a bulb
• cormous plant — plant growing from a corm
• psilophyte — any plant of the order Psilophytales: a savannah plant
• psilophyton — any plant or fossil of the genus Psilophyton

• plant, flora, plant life — a living organism lacking the power of locomotion

• vascular system — the vessels and tissue that carry or circulate fluids such as blood or lymph or sap through the body of an animal or plant
• duct — a continuous tube formed by a row of elongated cells lacking intervening end walls
• vascular tissue — tissue that conducts water and nutrients through the plant body in higher plants