Happy National Weed Appreciation Day. National Weed Appreciation Day was established to remind people that a weed is simply a plant growing where you don’t want it to grow. A weed is a plant considered undesirable in a particular situation—”a plant in the wrong place.” Common examples include plants unwanted in human-controlled environments such as farm fields, gardens, lawns, and parks. However, some weeds can be beneficial to both us and our ecosystem. (No really, I’m not joking.)
That’s basically the details of what makes a weed a weed, and there are hundreds of ‘weeds’ that are incredibly important in health, science, and culinary uses. Stop laughing.
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