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Palaeocene plants

Plants seem to have come through the K-T extinction – the one that killed off the dinosaurs – pretty well unscathed, although there must have been a huge amount of re-colonising to do. I’ve read that this became the age of the flowering plants. So maybe they were able to expand into the newly vacant spaces more quickly than their wind-seeded brethren.

However we mustn’t forget that plenty of wind-seeded plants found their way through too, as did those relying mainly on vegetative methods. Even the earliest coloniser of the land, the liverworts, is still around today.