ELI5, What makes a weed a weed?

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Is it just a personal bias against plants that grow well?

In: Biology

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Anonymous 0 Comments

A weed is just a plant growing in a place you dont want it to. Thats all.

If you are growing a lawn and a rare orchid pops up in the middle then the orchid is a weed.

If you are growing rare orchids and you find grass growing, then the grass is the weed.

Anonymous 0 Comments

Pretty much, a weed is any wild plant growing in some sort of cultivated area. So unwanted plants growing in a garden or lawn might be considered weeds, while the same isn’t necessarily true for the same plants in a national park or other natural place.

Anonymous 0 Comments

It’s any plant growing where you don’t want it. For instance, corn that comes up in a soybean field is, in that instance, a weed.

Anonymous 0 Comments

You’ll often find that a weed is the only native thing in the area. That weed is just a plant. It spent millions of years evolving there, so it’s more successful than the other garden plants (not including weeds that have been introduced in recent centuries)

Anonymous 0 Comments

A plant that humans don’t like / a plant that we could like, but inhibit the success of other plants that we also like & probably need