One Man's Weed is Another Man's Pollinator

摘要

I was on a plant walk in early spring with people who enjoy the outdoors, delight in gardening, and love to learn. I was pointing out early spring plants, including natives. As I talked about the beauty and demand for spring flowering plants like squaw weed, may apple, Christmas fern, and lyre-leaved salvia, someone said, "But, Dr. A, these are just weeds." And in fact, weeds they were. These plants are all over woodlands and roadways in the Southeast.