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That's nice for the Australian Plant Society, but I assure you in the various parts of the US that I have lived in, native plants that people don't want in thei
by knome 2y ago
That's nice for the Australian Plant Society, but I assure you in the various parts of the US that I have lived in, native plants that people don't want in their sterile patches of grass are also definitely considered weeds.
It's a term used for anything smaller than a bush or tree that people don't want in their yards. Official definitions be damned.
- contingencies 2y agoYes, the joke here too is that in common use "weed" just means "plant that is not wanted by the speaker", but it is considered both incorrect and unlearned to call an indigenous plant a weed and would be quickly corrected/retracted here if popularly used, for example in media.
- trelane 2y agoPerhaps in Oz. In the States, however, this is the correct usage. Being native or even indigenous does not prevent it from being a weed.