What Is a Weed?—A weed has been denned as a plant out of place. If we accept this definition, pumpkins growing in a cornfield, if they are not wanted, are weeds; oats and barley growing in with wheat are to be regarded as weeds. Perhaps we may define “weed” by saying that it is a plant injurious to agriculture and horticulture, but I am reminded that many people have different notions in regard to weeds.
A great many people call every plant a weed the flower of which is not ornamental. The plants found in a forest would thus be regarded as weeds.As a matter of fact, these very plants found in the forest are important for the forest and cannot be regarded as weeds; they are a part of that particular plant community.
Weeds of the Farm and Garden by L.H. Pammel 1911
RSS
Flickr
weeds
What Is a Weed?—A weed has been denned as a plant out of place. If we accept this definition, pumpkins growing in a cornfield, if they are not wanted, are weeds; oats and barley growing in with wheat are to be regarded as weeds. Perhaps we may define “weed” by saying that it is a plant injurious to agriculture and horticulture, but I am reminded that many people have different notions in regard to weeds.
A great many people call every plant a weed the flower of which is not ornamental. The plants found in a forest would thus be regarded as weeds.As a matter of fact, these very plants found in the forest are important for the forest and cannot be regarded as weeds; they are a part of that particular plant community.
Weeds of the Farm and Garden by L.H. Pammel 1911