If you've ever been lucky enough to own your own bit of lawn, you have probably at some point moaned about the sheer number of weeds that you have to remove from it. You, along with many people over on Reddit and other areas of the Internet, may have wondered at some point; what is the difference between weeds and plants? The rest of this article is behind a paywall. Please sign in or subscribe to access the full content.

"I’ve always wondered, what exactly makes something a weed as opposed to being just a plant," one person asking that question explained on Reddit. "As a kid I figured weeds didn’t have flowers, but they do. As an adult I figured weeds are inedible, but dandelions are edible. The other day I saw a post about how Bees are dying because we spray weeds like dandelions an

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