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Flowering plant or non-flowering plant

This feature concerns whether a genus is an angiosperm (flowering plant) or not. Absence of flowers alone on a plant does not necessarily indicate it is not an angiosperm, as a plant may not be at the flowering stage of its life cycle. Non flowering plants in this tool include mosses, liverworts, ferns, horsetails, and quillworts. And algaealgae:
(n) (sing. alga) photosynthetic, eukaryotic, unicellular or complex multicellular organisms, mainly aquatic, lacking true stems, roots, leaves, conducting vessels, and complex sex organs
are not in the plant kingdom. If your specimen lacks flowers, you must have some knowledge of the type of plant it is, in order to determine whether it is an angiosperm or not. If you are not sure, choose "don't know."

flowering plant (angiosperm)

non-flowering plant (e.g. fern, moss, liverwort, etc.) or non-plant

don't know

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