they are the most perfect amazing babies lets review the facts:
-non-flowering. she does not need flowers to be beautiful
-can reproduce with alien sexy times or by putting clone babies into a cup and waiting for the rain to splash them out of said cup (2 and 3 on the image are the alien sex organs, 1 is a leaf, 4 is a cute little cup of single-celled children)
-speaking of that the cups are hella cute, the best most amazing clone shooters
-is a liverwort. liverworts were among the first plants to climb out of the sea and shes still here!!! dinosaur baby
-also has big scales everywhere that are good for gently patting
-a TON of rhizoids (like roots but for nonvascular plants) coming from the underside of the leaves and they just kinda grow into whatever
-lives in mud
-genome is fully sequenced and is used as a model organism in science!!! helpful muddy scale friend
-heres a pic of some we collected for herbarium samples last saturday, she was living in a little colony on a really steep mud cliff and left a wet mud spot on my jeans but it is ok i love her:
theyre old and scaly and kind of all over the place and i love them ok