Plant

Plants are a major group of living things (about 300,000 species), including familiar organisms such as trees, flowers, herbs, and ferns. Aristotle divided all living things between plants, which generally do not move or have sensory organs, and animals. In Linnaeus' system, these became the Kingdoms Vegetabilia (later Plantae) and Animalia. Since then, it has become clear that the Plantae as originally defined included several unrelated groups, and the fungi and several groups of algae were removed to new kingdoms. However, these are still often considered plants in many contexts. Indeed, any attempt to match "plant" with a single taxon is doomed to fail, because plant is a vaguely defined concept unrelated to the presumed phylogenic concepts on which modern taxonomy is based.

Distribution

Plants are found in varying quantities around the world... According to biomes they inhabit different areas while few if any can be found beyond the tundras at the northermost of continental shelves. At the southern extremes it adapts tenaciously but hardly survives... (Please, correct and enhance this entry, I think it's appropriate to have this info here, but I know no details, so, I've written this to get the attention of any one able to improve my attempt to mention how plants have succedeeded and influence vast regions up to it's own limitations, I wanted to mention about arctic vegetation, but I know not if there is such and, well, it would be unfair to mention the cactus and it's existance in deserts without mentioning other plants)

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