What is the Difference Between Native, Non-Native, Naturalized, and Invasive Plants?
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- Опубліковано 12 вер 2024
- Learn the difference(s) between plants that are native, non-native, naturalized, and invasive. You can skip through the chapters to quickly learn the definitions, or you can dig deeper to really understand the depth and nuances of the differences. (Thumbnail Image: Monarch Butterfly on Asclepias incarnata (Swamp Milkweed))
Native: A plant that originates in a particular place and is part of the balance of nature in that place that has developed, adapted, and evolved there for over hundreds of thousands of years. Plants that were here in North America since before European settlement. (Analogy: A cello in an orchestra.)
Non-native: Plants that have been brought to a new place either on purpose or by accident. These plants have not developed, adapted, and evolved there for over hundreds of thousands of years. Plants that are in North America that came after European settlement. (Analogy: An electric guitar that crams itself into a seat in the orchestra. It doesn’t have any sheet music and just plays whatever it wants.)
Naturalized: A non-native plant that can spread. It can reproduce and establish a population, without the help of people. They do not become native plants (except after more than 100,000 years). (Analogy: An electric guitar that puts on a cello costume and tries playing the cello sheet music. It kind-of looks like it fits (but it doesn’t), if you don’t look too close.)
Invasive: A non-native plant that spreads out-of-control. It can reproduce and establish a population, without the help of people, and does so quickly, destroying the native plants and native community. (Analogy: An electric guitar that brings in 100 more electric guitars. They play whatever they want, whenever they want, and make the rest of the orchestra walk off stage.)
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All video/images are created by the Native Flower Power channel creator, with the following exceptions:
Orchestra Image: Wikimedia user Endrendre (commons.wikime...)
Electric Guitar Image: Peakpx (www.peakpx.com...)
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Chapter 1: Native Plants (00:51)
Chapter 2: Non-Native Plants (07:01)
Chapter 3: Naturalized Plants (14:32)
Chapter 4: Invasive Plants (19:12)
References:
Davis and Thompson. Bulletin of the Ecological Society of America 81(3): 226. 2000.
Tallamy, Doug. 2020. “Nature’s Best Hope: A New Approach to Conservation That Starts in Your Yard.”
U.S. Department of Agriculture
Grace College
U.S. National Park Service
National Geographic
National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)
Vaudo, Patch, Mortensen, Grozinger. Macronutrient ratios in pollen shape bumble bee (Bombus impatiens) foraging strategies and floral preferences. PNAS 113(28): E4035-E4042. 2016.
Additional References = Talks given by/on:
Doug Tallamy, Ph.D.: • Saving Nature with Dou...
Chelsea Gottfried: www.amazon.com...
The Ohio State University (OSU) Entomology Department: entomology.osu...
Rebecca McMackin, M.Sc.: www.rebeccamcm...
Benjamin Vogt, Ph.D.: www.monarchgar...
Andy Dickerson (Cardinal Land Conservancy): www.cardinalla...
Darrel Morrison, Ph.D.: www.darrelmorr...
Native Plants, Healthy Planet (podcast): www.nativeplan...
The orchestra analogy is probably the best way of explaining the interactions between native and non-native plants that I've ever heard. I especially loved when the electric guitar player appeared in the middle of the orchestra! Although I listened to a lot of 80s hair bands in my youth, I have learned in my older years to appreciate the beauty of orchestral music (for example, musical scores from the Harry Potter movies). So now, when the I'm fighting the Chinese privet that has overtaken parts of our woods, I know I'm going to see them as a bunch of thrash metal bands rolling in their amps and drums and running cables all through the stage where the orchestra is set up, drowning out the beautiful music they had been playing before. Bravo!
Thank you! Also, "rolling in their amps and drums and running cables all through the stage where the orchestra is set up," -- This is so well said, I can absolutely see this! Creating this annoying and distracting bustle, running cords right across the stage, knocking over music stands.... it's such a great visual that you created on top of my own! Well played! 🙂
Well done! Thanks for doing the work to get this kind of information out into the public.
Thank you for saying so!
Nice video. Now do noxious.