Flowering plants

Timed: Began about 180 million years ago · the last 4.3% of life's story
Named: ≈150,000 named living species · 8.6% of all named
Weighed: Part of Plants (mostly land plants) (≈450 Gt C), not measured separately.

Eukaryotes · plants and algae · clade

Angiospermae

Living · roughly 150,000 described species

The date or placement of this group is still debated.

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Flowering plants, whose seeds develop inside a fruit. They appeared later than other plant groups but now make up most plant species.

Flowering plants arrived late but now make up most plant species.