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Steven dose a lot of this green source with bob Marlyn.
" ... used to describe native or nonnative plants that grow and reproduce aggressively."
Well, "native and non-native" describes all possibilities, so how about removing it:
" ... used to describe plants that grow and reproduce aggressively."
which provides no less information. Old_Wombat ( talk) 11:11, 11 May 2011 (UTC)
It's not enough simply to say "plant X is a weed," with no citations. Instead, we need citations that find common, mainstream support to label something a "weed". Even then, such a label may be disputable in some cases (i.e., clover). Ryoung122 19:16, 10 October 2011 (UTC)
In 1999 ABC-TV (in the USA) had a miniseries called Brave New World (TV series). One of its episodes was about weeds, and in this case, it generalized weeds to all life, not just plants, and detailed weeds ability to quickly adapt, live in multiple environments, and survive mass extinctions. It then ends with the conclusions that humans are a weed, and They Might Be Giants even had a song for it, called King Weed. Alas, I'm failing to find reliable source, largely to the series' horribly unoriginal name. Ego White Tray ( talk) 16:41, 15 November 2012 (UTC)
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Second sentence in the article on Weed needs changing:
"The term weed is used in a variety of senses, generally centering around a plant that is not desired within a certain context." It is impossible for anything, whether a physical object or an idea to CENTER AROUND something. CENTER indicates the center and you cannot center around a center. 206.177.43.74 ( talk) 08:44, 15 May 2013 (UTC)
My understanding of a weed is that it is a plant undesirable to livestock. However, there are plenty of other of weeds that sustain a diversity of life. For example, the Monarch Butterfly is highly dependent on the presence of Milkweed. Or " Butterfly Weed", or many other flowering plants that livestock don't like to eat. As the world applies much more industrial farming techniques, the lack of biodiversity can be harmful to many other species. I could argue that honeybee collapse may be related to such lack of biodiversity. I'd like to suggest a review of the definition of a "weed". I do grant that invasive species can have radical changes to a local environment - so not all weeds should be considered "good" either. I simply state that there is a POV involved with every species. -- 71.10.145.225 ( talk) 00:46, 30 December 2014 (UTC)
The "Role in mass extinctions" section seems too absolute to me. The statement that "only weedy species survive" is clearly too strongly put. It should rather say that weedy species will have an advantage, being generalized for survival outside of niche environments. SageRad ( talk) 10:17, 29 May 2015 (UTC)
I reorganized the sections just a bit. I removed some text on weed control from the short-list of weeds, and put it into its own section. Weed control is a huge topic, and i do not want to re-write the Weed control entry, but only to provide a very brief introduction to the concepts and to promote the link for the Weed control article, where that should be covered. I also made sure that this article does not include an assumption that chemical weed control will be used, but instead says "If chemical control is chosen..." to emphasize that this is a choice and not a mandatory means of weed control. It must be maintained as one of many means of weed control, to avoid bias. SageRad ( talk) 10:48, 29 May 2015 (UTC)
This is a ridiculous wiki, just like the word "weed". Every flower and plant is equal, some are just more efficient at utilizing soil nutrients & propagating than others. They are anything but "bad plants", they're super plants. It's quite annoying when one is cultivating a particular plant, and to have neighbours etc dismiss that particular plant as "just a weed". The word "weed" needs to be banned. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 88.106.203.79 ( talk) 21:20, 12 June 2015 (UTC)
In common parleance weed refers to unwanted, unvalued plants, but originally it seems obvious that it had another connotation as it is attested that in Old English they had a word uueod, perhaps rather in the sense of unweed. In modern Norwegian weed is translated as 'ugrass', litteraly 'ungrass'/'unweed'. The etymology of weod is uncertain. A possible relation may be simply Old English 'wið' meaning 'against', as a concept of remedy. ( See etymology of 'with'). The old Norse here refered to also means 'woods' and 'fuel'. -- Xact ( talk) 02:23, 16 February 2016 (UTC)
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Include the weed definition "A plant that causes economic losses or ecological damage, creates health problems for humans or animals, or is undesirable where it is growing." with a reference to the Weed Science Society of America wssa.net Jdb7320 ( talk) 19:15, 20 April 2016 (UTC)
I suggest removing the "In other media" section as it contains only one example, and contributes nothing to understanding of the subject. There are obviously innumerable examples that could be given of weeds in media, but there would be little point in trying to list them. 2.24.119.75 ( talk) 19:47, 30 July 2016 (UTC)
If one grazes cattle in the outback on native plants, and the cattle are tempted to eat poisonous plants, is it appropriate to call the plant which poisons them a weed? The plants were there long before the cattle... Many Australian native plants gave sheep, cattle or horses "the staggers" and books such as "Plants of the Kimberley region of Western Australia" / R.J. Petheram and B. Kok (2003), assess plants for their usefulness as fodder, fencing, fire, proof against termites, and also for their quality of being poisonous to European livestock. A large number of the native plants described in the book are (under some conditions) highly poisonous to introduced animals. And I suspect that this photo represents just such a poisoning incident. MargaretRDonald ( talk) 20:19, 26 May 2018 (UTC)
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In the introduction, please link "volunteer" to Volunteer (botany). 2601:5C6:8080:100:8044:54D9:4E50:645D ( talk) 12:15, 16 February 2020 (UTC)
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Define weed 2409:4066:E88:DA53:0:0:8CCB:4C0A ( talk) 13:55, 30 March 2022 (UTC)
"This introduces the concept of human and their goal" -- What a needlessly pompous way of saying that the identification of weeds is subjective. 67.180.143.89 ( talk) 16:11, 17 September 2022 (UTC)
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