Try doing that in Iceland. They’re both very aware and conflicted about invasive species up there. Lupin is invasive and covering the country and also building soil from nothing, Pine trees are invasive and the quickest way to get treecover that is desperately needed.

Makes for weird discussions, I guess Iceland is such and extreme case that nobody really knows if they should be saving the ecosystem it had managed to scratch together before we turned up or if they should be trying to rush a healthier ecosystem with imports (Iceland was pretty thin and fragile even before humans and we wrecked what little there was)

If you're also pointing out cool native plants and their uses and benefits you're amazing

also check out crime pays but botany doesn't on youtube

I mean down here we just embrace the kudzu. Ok, that’s not true. Down here if you sit for too long, but not as long as you’d think. The kudzu embraces you.

We should hike together. I genuinely love hiking with people who won't shut up about plants, rocks, fungi, or animals

English ivy. English ivy everywhere.

Tree of Heaven. I dislike this tree and point out its growth to friends and family when we pass by them all the time.

Ughhhh this is me. I can't unsee the invasive species.

Me looking at all the invasive grass in socal....

For me its zebra mussels. I see those, it's a firefight on sight.

Pointing out earth worms are invasive in many places has been my go to recently.

Oh hey, it's me. But seriously fuck mullein.

Be the invasive species you want to see in the world.

The species aren't invasive the people that took them from their natural habitat and then abandoned them are.