difference between a flower and a weed?

Ultimate Seduction

What is a weed is it just a flower we don't like or is it something more scientific

looksee

A weed is a plant in the wrong place.

Ultimate Seduction

looksee wrote:

A weed is a plant in the wrong place.

As I thought, Just wondering if maybe there was something different in a plant's DNA or something.

I had these thoughts while looking in to the most amazing field, twas pure yellow, full of buttercups. Beautiful I thought

Day Lewin

No, flower or weed, it's just a descriptor of whether a plant is wanted or unwanted.
Plenty of plants are valued in one place, a weed in another.
Often refers to a plant which grows so vigorously that it makes itself unwelcome.

flutered

a weed usually has a sour smell

DANNY2014

I was always told
"every weeds a flower and every flower a weed"

magicbastarder

flutered wrote: »

a weed usually has a sour smell

examples?
i think most people's idea of a weed would be 'what grows in my lawn against my wishes'.

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1

flutered wrote: »

a weed usually has a sour smell

So do many cultivated 'flowers' and many 'weeds' are pleasantly fragrant.


My grandfather was a gardener in a large estate and he always said a weed was a flower in the wrong place.

RebelButtMunch

Have a read on r vs k selection

http://agron-www.agron.iastate.edu/~weeds/AG517/Content/lifehistory/competition/selectionforces.html#r%20and%20K%20selection

kylith

A rose is a weed in a cornfield

magicbastarder

RebelButtMunch wrote: »

Have a read on r vs k selection

http://agron-www.agron.iastate.edu/~weeds/AG517/Content/lifehistory/competition/selectionforces.html#r%20and%20K%20selection

or more (not necessarily scientific) reading:

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2010/oct/10/weeds-richard-mabey-review

Speedsie

The difference between a flower and a weed?
Location.

mayo.mick

In one of our tidy towns flowerbeds earlier this year, wasn't sure if this was a weed or not, so I left it. Now, I'd have called it a weed before it flowered, thankfully I left it

Buttercups I think?

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my3cents

I always remember visiting the Chelsea Physic Garden where they grow nettles in one of the flower beds and do a great job of supporting the nettles just like you would any other herbaceous boarder plant.

feargale

You might address an old flame as "me ould flower." Think of the reaction if you said "me ould weed."
Does that answer OP's question?

DANNY2014

feargale wrote: »

You might address an old flame as "me ould flower." Think of the reaction if you said "me ould weed."
Does that answer OP's question?

Sometimes "me ould weed" would be the correct terminology for such old flames...