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Name: debra bailey
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Date: 12/10/2002
Question:
Are Isotoma (blue star creeper) and Sagina subulata (Irish Moss) vascular plants or non vascular plants?

Replies:
Isotoma is a vascular plant in the Campanulaceae

http://www.desert-tropicals.com/Plants/Campanulaceae/ Laurentia_fluviatilis.html

Sagina is also a vascular plant in the Caryophyllaceae

http://www.desert-tropicals.com/Plants/Caryophyllaceae/ Sagina_subulata.html

Anthony Brach Ph.D.


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