The ginkgo is a hardy deciduous tree that is planted as an ornamental. Conifers are woody plants with needle or scale-like leaves that form cones. They include pines, cedars, junipers, redwoods, firs, and spruce. An odd group of cone-bearing plants with vascular systems more like angiosperms than gymnosperms. Two of the three genera are desert plants while the other is a tropical vine.
Angiosperms form their seeds enclosed in a fruit.
The flowering plants. There are almost 300,000 species of angiosperms, making them the dominate group of plants in the world today. The division has two classes. Monocotyledoneae and Dicotyledoneae. Plants are sometimes grouped using common names such as tree, shrub, forb, grass, etc.