I grow plants that behave themselves in my garden, like daylilies, iris and peony or hosta. I don't enjoy pulling thousands of seedlings out of the driveway, sidewalks and my pathways or anywhere else
If you will read what I wrote, I very well did say, that the plant was a native and not considered invasive in that respect. As far as I'm concerned *my* definition of invasive as it pertains to MY garden is pulling out piles of unwanted seedlings or plants. That becomes nothing more than an undesirable weed to me.
There are plenty of plants which prevent growth of plants around them due to release of substance that prevents germination or growth of other plants- and they are native to some region somewhere and not invasive in that environment-only doing what they do.
There are many plants which are not native in any way to even the united states let alone any state, and yet they are not invasive. You don't have to plant natives to benefit wildlife, bees, birds or otherwise.
Telling someone a plant is 'invasive' in it's correct usage without considering the geographical area or growing conditions, can be misleading. He or she simply needs to find out if the plant they desire to grow is invasive in their area, and further, if it behaves in a way that they will consider invasive in their garden. Whatever a plant's habits, whether native or not, if you don't like those habits, you don't want to plant it and have it become a problem.
