Liverworts are a group of haploid plants that challenge our idea of what a plant is. They lack flowers, wood, roots, and sometimes even leaves! Yet, they are plants. In fact, palaeobotanical research suggests that some extant liverworts are morphologically similar to the first plants that ventured to land, over 400 mya. Despite their superficial fragility and “simplicity”, liverworts are diverse and widespread: these paradoxical plants occur from deserts to tropical rainforests; they can live in bare rock, on the trunk of trees, or even on top of an angiosperm leaf; and many individual liverwort species have very large geographic ranges. And so, many questions arise: Have liverworts changed much in 400 million years, and if not, why not, how not? How do single species maintain such big distributions? (or do they..?) Ixchel studies liverworts at multiple spatial and temporal scales. To know more about her research visit https://ixchelgzlzr.github.io.