After some 90 inches of snow this past winter, just think of all the seeds that got germinated in the sodden ground. In the forest, they’ll become wildflowers. In the city, they’re usually called weeds.
Whether weeds or wildflowers, uncultivated plants often fill an invaluable role in supplying food for birds, bees and people; and some have medicinal histories. Many of these uninvited plants have a propensity to spread so abundantly, they’ve made the blacklist of invasives.
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