Tag: Weed
The term weed is used in a variety of senses, generally centering around a plant that is not desired within a certain context. The term weed is a subjective one, without any classification value, since a plant that is a weed in one context is not a weed when growing where it belongs or is wanted. Indeed, a number of plants that many consider “weeds”, are often intentionally grown by people in gardens or other cultivated-plant settings. Therefore, a weed is a plant that is considered by the user of the term to be a nuisance. The word commonly is applied to unwanted plants in human-controlled settings, especially farm fields and gardens, but also lawns, parks, woods, and other areas. More vaguely, “weed” is applied to any plants that grow and reproduce aggressively and invasively. ‘Volunteer weeds’ are crop plants from one year which are growing in the subsequent crop.
Weeds generally share similar adaptations that give them advantages and allow them to proliferate in disturbed…
