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What's A native Plant?

Normally, I'd answer that question with; "A native is a survivor" (not that most plants aren't). Native plants are those that originate in a given place and have long grown there, thus being native to a given area or indigenous. There are also naturalized natives. Usually an alien plant introduced from a distant geographical area and has since taken a foothold.

All plants are extremely adaptive, but usually can prosper only in places where its particuliar needs are met. Yet over the course of time, different species have used their adaptive nature to evolve with a given environment and colonize even the most unlikely habitats. Desert plants develop multi-branched root systems that reach far down for water through parched layers of soil and subsoil.

Natives, naturalized or indigenous, occupy their own self-contained niches, and no matter how dry the summer or harsh the winter, come spring- there they all are; deer, and birds, salamanders, and yeh- bugs...sibilent crawly things, our plants...My Ferns!

To me, plants somehow survive an internecine war of seasons... winter after harsh winter, continually, as if the wars past have never happened... bleached bones from the ones who gave, the fresh dappled faces of the ones that are. I am always amazed and surprised by it all.

Plants are both prisoners and shapers of their environment. Probably the greatest continental invasion occured with the European settlement of North America. Settlers of the New World introduced hundreds of species from thier homelands. In the same fashion, the settlers that headed for the American West introduced species from around the world and the eastern half of the U.S. Some of these species were carried intentionally because they were favorites of the settlers; others simply hitched a ride, as seed stuck in the fur of animals, or clinging to other items. Many of these aliens found environments that were favorable, and they become naturalized and are now considered wild plants of a given region.

Even today, cultivated flowers species escape from gardens, colonize a local area, and grow like wild flowers.