What determines a flower from a weed?

merlin321

A plant which sucks nutrients from other plants are called weeds. http://wiki.answers.com/Q/What_is_a_weed http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weed Nov 03 09, 12:27 PM

looney_tunes

"A plant considered undesirable, unattractive, or troublesome, especially one growing where it is not wanted, as in a garden." http://www.thefreedictionary.com/weed A plant considered decorative or useful in one environment may be considered a weed in another, due to its different impact on the local ecology. "Paterson's curse, Echium plantagineum (known as Salvation Jane in South Australia) is an introduced winter annual from the Mediterranean. Free of native Mediterranean plant and insect communities, it has become a dominant pasture weed of temperate Australia." (South Australian pastoralists welcomed it as a drought-relief source of fodder, hence its local nickname.) http://www.csiro.au/resources/ps29o.html Nov 03 09, 1:43 PM

zakandjake

According to an old gardeners saying "a weed is a plant in the wrong place". In my garden I have lots of plants in the wrong place. NOTE: "A weed is a plant that is not only in the wrong place, but intends to stay." — Sara Stein http://www.quotesonhorticulture.com/author/sara-stein [Link & NOTE added -- Zb] Nov 03 09, 1:46 PM

Baloo55th

"Of all the saddest words That I have ever heard The saddest is the story Told me by a bird He had spent about an hour A Chatting with a flower and here ís the tale the flower told Ooooh, I'm a lonely little petunia in an onion patch, an onion patch, an onion patch I'm a lonely little petunia in an onion patch and all I do is cry all day Boo hoo, boo hoo The air ís so strong it takes my breath away feee---you I'm a lonely little petunia in an onion patch, oh won't you come and play with me Who put me in this bed? I'll bet his face is red I call him down with every teardrop that I shed If I only had him here I'd take him by the ear And make him share my misery Ooooh, I'm a lonely little petunia in an onion patch, an onion patch, an onion patch I'm a lonely little petunia in an onion patch and all I do is cry all day Boo hoo, boo hoo The air ís so strong it takes my breath away feee---you I'm a lonely little petunia in an onion patch, oh won't you come and play with me" In most gardens, a petunia is a flower to be desired. In an onion patch, it's a weed. For the rest of the words, http://redbirdjan.freeyellow.com/gerber.html Nov 03 09, 2:41 PM

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