Vascular Plant

**Semantic type:** Plant

**Definition:** The flowering herbs, shrubs, trees and ferns. These plants have vascular tissue, consisting of xylem, which carries water and nutrients from the roots up the stem to the leaves, and the phloem, which carries sugar produced in the leaves to other parts of the plant.

**Synonyms:** - Higher Plant - Plants, Vascular - Tracheobionta - Tracheophytes