Minnesota Will Pay Residents to Grow Bee-Friendly Lawns

Re:Minnesota Will Pay Residents to Grow Bee-Friendly Lawns by mulmen on Tuesday July 02, 2019 @05:24PM (#20339529)

Native plants are plants that occur... natively. If a plant was brought in from elsewhere it is invasive. It has nothing to do with temperature.

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Re:Minnesota Will Pay Residents to Grow Bee-Friendly Lawns by karthikb on Tuesday July 02, 2019 @05:54PM (#20339724)

Plant seeds tend to travel far and wide with birds and animal migratory patterns. What takes root is dependent on soil, climate, etc. Meaning, what’s native is less dependent on location and more on conditions.

As climate changes, conditions change, and so the set of plants best suited to any particular location changes as well.

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Re:Minnesota Will Pay Residents to Grow Bee-Friendly Lawns by Retric on Tuesday July 02, 2019 @05:54PM (#20339726)

Plant ranges are migrating due to climate change. For species that are native to areas close enough to be introduced naturally invasive is not a useful definition.

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Re:Minnesota Will Pay Residents to Grow Bee-Friendly Lawns by mulmen on Tuesday July 02, 2019 @05:57PM (#20339741)

Exactly. Those plants are not invasive.

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