What is the difference between the development of ferns and bryophytes?

Ferns differ from bryophytes, first of all, by the prevailing life cycles. For most of their life, ferns are in the stage of asexual sporophyte. At this stage, spores appear on the plants, the reproductive organs of this type of plant. The gametophyte lasts much less. In bryophytes, on the contrary, the sexual stage of the gametophyte is perennial, and the sporophyte appears only in a short period of the year and quickly dies off.