That's true, but most people aren't aware of the nuance. I tried to emphasize native plants in my post - the vast majority are pioneer plants (that natively gro

That's true, but most people aren't aware of the nuance. I tried to emphasize native plants in my post - the vast majority are pioneer plants (that natively grow in that particular ecosystem). There are certainly "weeds" for a particular ecosystem that are harmful. I refer to them as invasive species (and yet, aren't all native plants 'invasive' at one point in their evolution?). "Weeds" is a particularly loaded and poor term for describing most of these types of plants.