Many plants have stems that are green and bendy. Plants like this are called herbaceous plants, because many are herbs, such as mint and basil. Woody plants such as trees and shrubs have stiff stems or trunks covered in bark. Woody plants tend to have more xylem than herbaceous plants. A terminal bud grows at the tip of each stem, making the plant grow taller.
Lateral buds grow farther back along the stem, at places called nodes.
Some lateral buds grow into new branches. Some grow into leaves or flowers. Honeysuckle is a climbing plant that uses other plants or walls of buildings for support, as its own stem will not support it. Spores and seeds The first plants ever to grow on land were plants such as fungi, lichen, mosses, liverworts, ferns and horsetails. Plants like these are usually quite simple in structure and grow from tiny cells called spores.