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Rant: the butterfly garden in Tucson labels natives as weeds, so which side is right?
I stopped by the desert museum outside Tucson last Saturday and spent 20 minutes in their butterfly garden reading plant tags. Two of the plants growing right next to each other were labeled one as a native wildflower and the other as an invasive weed, and they looked almost the same to me. Part of me thinks the labels are just being honest, since some native plants really do spread too fast and crowd out the rest. The other part of me thinks calling a local plant a weed in a garden built to support local bugs sends the wrong message. Where do you all draw the line between native plant and weed?
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mason_davis12d ago
Guessing my own yard is 90 percent "weeds" by that standard, so maybe don't trust my judgment here. Honestly if it feeds the local bugs and doesn't take over everything, I'd just call it a plant and move on.
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