EVERYDAY SCIENCE

Detailed explanation-1: -Answer and Explanation: Club mosses are different from true mosses because they are vascular plants, and true mosses are non-vascular. Club mosses belong to phylum Lycophyta, an ancient group of seedless vascular plants.

Detailed explanation-2: -The clubmosses form a distinct group that is generally recognized at the phylum level (Lycopodiophyta). They are one of the groups of ‘fern allies’, groups unified by having vascu lar tissue but lacking seeds.

Detailed explanation-3: -club moss, (family Lycopodiaceae), also called ground pine, any of some 400 species of seedless vascular plants constituting the only family of the lycophyte order Lycopodiales.

Detailed explanation-4: -Clubmoss get their name from the resemblance of their tiny leaves to leaves of mosses, and from the fact that their spores are produced in club-like branches called strobili. Like ferns, clubmosses never have flowers.

Detailed explanation-5: -Clubmosses can resemble mosses; however, clubmosses have vascular tissue, while mosses do not. In plants, tissue is specialized tissue that transports water and nutrients throughout the plant. Vascular seedless plants have vascular tissue, a specialized tissue that transports water and nutrients throughout the plant.