Describe plant groups of significance to horticulture.

Identify the differences between conifers and flowering plants; conifers - mostly evergreen, woody, cones, and naked seeds, perennials. Flowering plants - evergreen and deciduous, herbaceous and woody, flowers and enclosed seeds, all life cycles.

|feature | Conifer (Gymnosperm)| Flowering (Angiosperm) | |–|–|–| |Deciduousness|Mostly Evergreen |Evergreen AND Deciduous | |Flowers and Seeds|Cones, Naked seeds |Flowers, Enclosed seed | |Life cycle|Perennial |All life cycles (perennial, biennial, annual) | |Woodiness|Woody |Woody and herbaceous |

Describe the differences between monocotyledons and dicotyledons: features of root, stem, leaf, flower and seed including internal arrangements of vascular bundles in stems and roots.

feature	Monocot	Dicot
Number of cotyledons	1	2
Leaves	Narrow with parallel veins	Broad with branching veins
Roots	Fibrous	Usually tap root
Vascular bundles	Scattered throughout stems and roots	Arranged in a ring around stems and roots
Flower parts	in 3s	in 4s or 5s