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Asked by superkingtom to Aled, Ellie, Fiona, Kev, Willem on 18 Mar 2014.
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Aled Roberts answered on 18 Mar 2014:
Hey Superkingtom!
Plants have evolved to be like they are today, if they could and there was a benefit in doing so, they would have evolved to be able to stand up and move about! Incidentally, some plants are capable of “shuffling” along the ground! as they use their roots to drag them from one point to another (such as vines), creeping along a surface… but this is a very slow process and you might not even notice it!
Hope that helps! 🙂 Vote if you like my answer! 🙂
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Kevin Arbuckle answered on 18 Mar 2014:
Realistically, probably not. They don’t have the nervous system or muscles/skeleton to allow them to do this, although they can move to some degree (think of them bending towards the light or ivy climbing around a wall). Also, and probably more importantly for evolution, things that move (such as animals) have evolved that ability for two main reasons: to find food and to avoid becoming food. Plants don’t have to find food because they make their own from soil and sunlight, and they have a different strategy to predation (or ‘herbivory’ when the ‘prey’ are plants). They simply tolerate being eaten a bit and regrow themselves. So there is not really the background to build on nor the need for plants to evolve movement like animals.
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