Bryophytes (mosses and liverworts):

No roots, vascular system, or cuticle.

Rhizoids similar to root hairs.

Mosses with simple leaf-like structures.

Liverworts have flattened shape called a thallus.

Filicinophytes (ferns):

Roots, leaves in fronds, and vascular system.

Cuticle on leaves.

Can form small trees but not woody.

Coniferophytes (conifers and pines):

Shrubs to very large trees.

Advanced vascular system.

Woody stems and roots.

Angiospermophytes (flowering plants and grasses):

Highly variable in structure-tiny herbaceous to large trees

Roots, stems and leaves.

Advanced vascular system.

Can form woody tissue.