Plants don’t have hearts or veins like we do, but they still have a way of moving water and nutrients around. Ever wondered how water gets from the roots to the leaves or how a tree feeds itself? That’s where the xylem and phloem come in—two transport systems that keep plants alive and thriving. In this blog, we’ll break down how it all works. Herbaceous Dicot Stem Plants need a transport system to move substances like water, minerals, and nutrients. Some simple plants, like mosses, do not have specialized transport vessels and are called non-vascular plants. Most plants, however, have specialized tube-like transport tissues and are known as vascular plants. This blog discusses transport systems found in herbaceous dicotyledonous plants. ( A herbaceous dicotyledonous plant is a non-woody plant that has two embryonic seed leaves or cotyledons) Structure of Transport Tissues Xylem and Phloem: The Two Transport Tissues In herbaceous dicotyledonous plants, there are two main transport tiss...