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Bookmark or Share- Plant | Definition, Evolution, Ecology, & Taxonomy | BritannicaPlant, any multicellular, eukaryotic, usually photosynthetic life-form in the kingdom Plantae. There are an estimated 390,900 different species of plants known to science. Learn more about the plant kingdom, including the life and evolutionary histories and physical characteristics of the major plant groups.
- Plants of the World Online | Kew ScienceWelcome to Plants of the World Online. Browse 1,424,000 global plant names, 202,500 detailed descriptions, and 384,800 images
- Six fundamental characteristics of plants | BritannicaNo definition of the kingdom completely excludes all nonplant organisms or even includes all plants. Many plants, for example, are not green and thus do not produce their own food by photosynthesis, being instead parasitic on other living plants (see parasitism). Others obtain their food from dead organic matter.
- Plant - Photosynthesis, Reproduction, Evolution | Britannicaplant. Table of Contents. Plant - Photosynthesis, Reproduction, Evolution: Plants (kingdom Plantae) are all multicellular and eukaryotic, and most can convert the energy of sunlight into chemical energy by means of photosynthesis; they are autotrophic and store their excess food as starch.
- Plants Portal | BritannicaPlant, (kingdom Plantae), any multicellular eukaryotic life-form characterized by (1) photosynthetic nutrition (a characteristic possessed by all plants except some parasitic plants and underground orchids),...
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