What do weeds do differently than other plants that lets them grow so quickly?

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Edit: The weed lobby is alive and well in the comments! Just kidding. Appreciate the responses.

But my question still sort of stands. Take away the pejorative label “weed”—what allows these plants to perform better than the other ones?

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I currently live on a farm. Based on my own experience, the weeds are here, this is their natural habitat.

The plants I am putting in the ground are not from here (this part of the woods, where my garden is), so of course they have difficulty in the environment, and of course the local weeds that are healthy will affect them.

Also wild plants tend to be stronger, where the ones we specifically cultivate become different because we modify them. Guess who wins when they’re both in a natural scenario.

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