Classifying vascular plants within clades of a phylogenic tree helps to learn their evolutionary history. This tree provides additional interpretive material that describes how plant classifications develop from innovative evolutionary traits. Hover over a divergence icon () at the nodes of the phylogenic tree to discover the shared characteristics that plant families derived from their common ancestors. For a more complete and detailed phylogeny, click here.

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