The blogger ended his article on a bit of an ironic note... Didn't he?
I have a similar plant to bull nettle.... Cndosculous stimulosa... AKA 7 minute itch... And while it's a real pest.... I kinda do like the flowers, and it's a treat to observe the butterflies flit from one patch to the next... Doesn't matter how desperately dry it is... The cndosculous always look good... And... The gopher tortoise eat them!
Ima big fan of matelea too... But while the monarchs do lay eggs on them... I'm not sure if it's all that and a bag of chips as monarch food... Although... Doesn't seem to hurt the tussocks any... Or the milkweed bugs...
Yeah... I'm all in favor of removing the word weed from the language.... It no longer conveys information...
I reckon we needed a label for non-vegetables back when we were all subsistence farming, but calling wildflowers and vegetables... weeds... when they come up in the lawn... That's just wrong...
