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Did I get this right? Vascular & Non Vascular Plant Flow Chart

 
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I'm teaching a wildcrafting/botany/ethnobotany class this year. My husband suggested it would be a good idea to have a sort of "family tree" of plant types for kids place the plants we learn about in class, so they can grasp how all the plants relate and differ from one another. I think he's on to something! But, I wasn't finding a diagram that really did what I wanted.

I started making my own, and it's morphed into a sort of flow chart. I'd like to add a picture/example for each plant type. But, before I do that (and because it's bed time), I figured I'd post it and make sure I didn't spell anything wrong (photoshop's spellcheck is less than great) and see if I got all the fact right.

Any suggestions? Should I change any of the font sizes? I'm thinking maybe the "No!" and "Yes!" words could probably be larger.
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That seems to fit quite well with this one I found, which I assume is the current classification.



The actual divisions and how they fit together seems to get updated over time as more is learned. I can still quote the series I learned at age 14, but then I learned a different one when I was 16, then again for uni, and by the time I was homeschooling it had changed again.

Just for interest, the one I memorised by rote all those years ago (which I'm finding out now wasn't even correct at the time, but it was the one demanded by the O-level syllabus at the time) was - fungi.  algae. liverworts and mosses.  ferns and horsetails. flowering plants.

But for teaching the basics, especially from a wildcrafting point of view, this is by far the best book I've ever found - Shanleya's Quest: A Botany Adventure for Kids Ages 9-99 by Thomas Elpel

 
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