Plants – Kingdom Plantae

WRITTEN BYGeorge M. WoodwellSee All ContributorsDirector and President, Woods Hole Research Center, Massachusetts. Lecturer in Ecology, School of Forestry and Environmental Studies, Yale University. Coauthor of Biotic Feedbacks in the Global Climatic…See Article History

Alternative Titles: Embryophyta, Metaphyta, Plantae

Plant, (kingdom Plantae), any multicellular eukaryotic life-form characterized by