Re:A weed is swallowing the Sonoran Desert
by onlypositive on Tuesday May 16, 2023 @01:59PM
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Yes, we call plants invasive when we see them spreading uncontrollably, that's the word we have decided to use to describe this occurrence.
Native plants is a term used to describe plants that were present before humans got involved.
It's a human centric way to view the world but I guess it's better than us trying to dick around making everything human agnostic considering we're all human and share a bunch of human context with each other.
Name a plant that wasn’t at some point “invasive”. You can’t. We call plants invasive when we see their spread, and native otherwise. But whether a human observed a particular organism spreading matters precisely not at all.