angiosperms

Another interesting parallel in eating seeds is between seeds from angiosperms like pine seeds and those from grasses like wheat.

As mentioned in the article, Angiosperms emerge in the fossil record later than this butterfly-like lacewing.

Some desert angiosperms sprout, pollinate, spread seeds, then die in the span of a week.

You know, I never considered that almost all plants we eat are angiosperms (flowering plants, monocots + dicots).

Non-angiosperms (gymnosperms, ferns etc.) are either wind pollinated, or don't make pollen and reproduce via spores, often via an intermediate sexual generation.

Unlike angiosperms that often spread their seeds with the help of animals.

My understanding is that something very much like this is what is theorized to have kicked off a more recent 'explosion', that of angiosperms.

After all there were native angiosperms before the Europeans arrived.

They just got out-competed once angiosperms (flowers!) came about.

Dicots are a sub-domain of angiosperms (flowering plants).

(Tulips and oak trees are both angiosperms, flowering plants, and share a common angiosperm ancestor.

All seed plants (including angiosperms) have ovules.

My understanding would be more "all angiosperms are trees, and the ones that aren't woody are sort of doing a neoteny.

In the Wikipedia article on angiosperms it states, "The evolution of seed plants and later angiosperms appears to be the result of two distinct rounds of whole genome duplication events." I'm sure something like this is one of the more plausible triggers for the Cambrian.

Angiosperms depends on tensile stresses for their strength.