Vascular plants that form spores. Horsetails, have jointed stems and scalelike leaves which give them a gritty feeling. Vascular plants that form seeds. The only living ginkgo example is Ginko biloba . 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.