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Nonvascular

81 objects

Explore ancient plants that don't have special tubes to carry water and food, so they stay low to the ground and absorb everything they need directly. They're true survivors!

This trait characterizes plants lacking specialized vascular tissues (xylem and phloem) for transporting water and nutrients.

PlantFungiFishInvertebrate

Objects with this trait

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Algae
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Algae
American Earwort
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American Earwort
Anomalous Bristle-moss
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Anomalous Bristle-moss
Bank Haircap Moss
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Bank Haircap Moss
Barnacle
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Barnacle
Blind Cave Tetra
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Blind Cave Tetra
Bryaceae
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Bryaceae
Bryum
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Bryum
Bud-headed Groove-moss
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Bud-headed Groove-moss
California Broomrape
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California Broomrape
Cat's Tail Moss
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Cat's Tail Moss
Catherine's moss
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Catherine's moss
Ciliate Hoarmoss
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Ciliate Hoarmoss
Coiled-leaf claw-moss
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Coiled-leaf claw-moss
Coralline algae
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Coralline algae
Crescent-cup liverwort
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Crescent-cup liverwort
Crustose Lichen
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Crustose Lichen
Cypress-leaved Plait-moss
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Cypress-leaved Plait-moss
Divine Bogmoss
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Divine Bogmoss
Elongate Rock Moss
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Elongate Rock Moss
Fee's lip fern
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Fee's lip fern
Forked Veilwort
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Forked Veilwort
Golden Glade-moss
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Golden Glade-moss
Grey-cushioned Grimmia
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Grey-cushioned Grimmia
Grimmia
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Grimmia
Haircap Moss
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Haircap Moss
Haircap Moss Family
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Haircap Moss Family
Hart's-tongue fern
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Hart's-tongue fern
Horn Calcareous Moss
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Horn Calcareous Moss
Hornwort
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Hornwort
Joint-toothed Mosses
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Joint-toothed Mosses
Lanky Moss
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Lanky Moss
Lichen
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Lichen
Liverwort
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Liverwort
Marchantia
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Marchantia
Menzies' Tree Moss
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Menzies' Tree Moss
New York fern
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New York fern
Oregon Beaked Moss
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Oregon Beaked Moss
Pacific Fuzzwort
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Pacific Fuzzwort
Pacific coralroot
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Pacific coralroot
Palm-tree Moss
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Palm-tree Moss
Peat Moss
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Peat Moss
Platyhypnidium Moss
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Platyhypnidium Moss
Powder Gun Moss
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Powder Gun Moss
Red-stemmed Feather Moss
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Red-stemmed Feather Moss
Reindeer Lichen
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Reindeer Lichen
Riccia
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Riccia
Ring Pellia
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Ring Pellia
Roell's Brotherella Moss
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Roell's Brotherella Moss
Seahorse
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Seahorse
Silvery Bryum
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Silvery Bryum
Snowplant
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Snowplant
Sphagnum Moss
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Sphagnum Moss
Square Gooseneck Moss
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Square Gooseneck Moss
Star Moss
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Star Moss
Tree Ruffle Liverwort
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Tree Ruffle Liverwort
Twisted Ulota Moss
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Twisted Ulota Moss
Urn Hair Moss
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Urn Hair Moss
Wall Scalewort
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Wall Scalewort
Wall Screw-moss
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Wall Screw-moss
Wallace's spikemoss
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Wallace's spikemoss
Waved Silk-moss
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Waved Silk-moss
Yellow-green Rock Moss
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Yellow-green Rock Moss
Yellow-ladle Liverwort
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Yellow-ladle Liverwort
ballmoss
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ballmoss
bird's-nest orchid
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bird's-nest orchid
brittle bladderfern
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brittle bladderfern
dendroalsia moss
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dendroalsia moss
fan clubmoss
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fan clubmoss
intermediate wood fern
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intermediate wood fern
juniper haircap moss
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juniper haircap moss
maidenhair spleenwort
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maidenhair spleenwort
pinesap
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pinesap
rhizomnium moss
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rhizomnium moss
rough goose neck moss
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rough goose neck moss
rough horsetail
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rough horsetail
seductive entodon moss
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seductive entodon moss
shingle moss
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shingle moss
small ground-cone
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small ground-cone
spinulose wood fern
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spinulose wood fern
stairstep moss
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stairstep moss