Mosses and Ferns Appear After the Rains

What’s the Difference?

  1. Both are primitive plants that don’t reproduce with flowers.

  2. They reproduce both sexually (with sperm and eggs) and asexually (with spores).

  3. They both tend to grow in mosit locations. because their sperms need water to ”swim” to the eggs

Spore capsules on moss

Sori on underside of fern

Mosses and Ferns in the same habitat

The text and images were provided by biologist Al Torretto. The video is of Al talking about mosses and ferns