Plants provide nourishment for our bodies and souls.
Plants provide shade over our heads and cool carpets under our feet while surrounding us with beautiful colors and marking the change of seasons. Prominent plants give us a handle on ecological communities. Classification of the plant kingdom can be especially confusing to the amateur naturalist. A strawberry plant is more closely related to an apple or apricot tree than to a clover or geranium. But if you have to group it with other plants, it belongs with conifers such as Pine trees.