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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It’s kinda the other way around. Anything that *can’t* grow quickly in your environment, won’t grow very well on its own.
Anything that *can* grow quickly in your environment will…well…grow quickly. It’ll try to reproduce and spread as much as possible, then when it spreads into a spot where it isn’t wanted we call it a “weed”.
So it’s not “weeds do something differently” – it’s “wild plants that happen to grow well and spread into your yard are then called weeds”.
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