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Shout out to Augustin Gattinger, who wrote The Flora of Tennessee and the Philosophy of Botany, the first flora for Tennessee, in 1901.

Key to the Four Traditional Groups of Vascular Plants

 * Pteridophyte: Plant reproduces with spores. These can be found on leaves or in terminal cones or spikes.
 * 2: Plants reproduce with seeds, including cones.

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 * Gymnosperm: Plant has cones and no flowers or fruits
 * 3: Plants keep seeds inside ovaries and fruits. Flowers present, though sometimes small or inconspicuous.

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 * 4: Flower parts mostly in 3s or multiples of 3s, leaves with parallel venation, 1 cotyledon
 * 5: Flower parts mostly in 4s or 5s. Leaves with netted venation, 2 seed leaves

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 * Monocot: Flowers present when collected.
 * Woody Monocot: Flowers absent when collected and stems woody.

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 * Dicotyledon: Flowers present when collected.
 * Woody Dicotyledon: Flowers absent when collected and stems woody.