Club+Mosses

= What are Club Mosses? =
 * The club mosses are small, seedless terrestrial or epiphytic, vascular plants, which lack flowers and reproduce sexually by spores.
 * They were once a large group of land plants that produced our first forests but now are part of a much smaller minority known as club mosses.

Structure o﻿f Club Mosses **﻿ ** > vascular tissues and stems. >  Transport Sys﻿tems
 * They have roots, which are underground organs that absorb water and minerals, leaves, which are photosynthetic organs that contain one or more bundles of
 * The vascular tissue is gathered into veins made of xylem and phloem.
 * Xylem is a transport system that carries water upward from the root ﻿ s of plants
 * Phloem is a second transport system that transports solutions of nutrients and carbohydrates produced by photosynthesis

Reproduction
 * Club mosses reproduce asexually with the use of fragmentation or a form of asexual reproduction, cloning, where an organism is split into parts. The splitting of these fragments may have not been intentional.
 * Reproduction is accomplished by spores produced in spore cases on the top surfaces of modified leaves of plants of the asexual or saprophyte phase. Spores germinate, producing underground plants on which are borne antheridia, which produce sperm, and archegonia, which produce eggs.

Habitat
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 21px; line-height: 24px;">Club Mosses are all concentrated in the temperate regions of the world, lying in the northern hemisphere. The club moss grows in the wild in all temperate areas in the northern regions of the world. The plant also inhabits higher altitudes, and elevated mountains and grassy areas in highlands often have wild populations of the club moss. Summer is the season for the collection, sorting and harvest of the club moss from the wild.