What is the difference between 'wild flowers' and 'weeds'?

Is there a biological or taxonomic definition of 'weeds', or is it merely a matter of personal choice as to what constitutes a weed: sort of a 'one man's meat...' situation?

What is the difference between 'wild flowers' and 'weeds'?
as a gardener, I have found that if it pulls out easy...it WAS an expensive plant....and if you pull and pull and it wont come out......... it's a weed!... All joking aside...


basically all ornamental plants are just Hybrid weeds. and wildflower is just a nice word for weed. Some are very pretty and will attract more butterflies and hummingbirds than cultivars.
Reply:a weed is merely a plant growing in the wrong place!
Reply:The price. I have pulled weeds out of my yard only to see them for sale at a nursery. Go figure I could have been rich by now.
Reply:I don't know give us a clue.
Reply:A weed is any unwanted plant. It is indeed a "one man's meat" situation. I saw a plant for sale in a Vancouver nursery that I routinely pull out of my garden as a weed. One time a visitor from Greece saw some weeds in my lawn and coveted them as a good-tasting vegetable (how lucky I am)..
Reply:I'm no gardener, but my neighbour is, and he agrees with "Chris". The only weeds in your garden are those plants you don't want!





When it comes to this sort of situation, I do not believe that any normal definition can apply. It's all down to personal choice.
Reply:Weeds are the plants that keep invading my garden in the wrong places, and take the space of those I did want. Wild flowers are those plants that never have the cheek to plonk themselves down in my garden!
Reply:A weed is a plant growing in the wrong place.
Reply:Wild flowers are weeds and weeds are wild flowers. You either love 'em or hate 'em. Wildlife (bees, birds, butterflies etc.) usually love 'em so every garden should have a 'wild' patch. Some of them are really very pretty too, not so flamboyant as cultivated ones but often more delicate.
Reply:Weeds are plants that are growing in the wrong place, that is true, and so can wildflowers. However, many weeds can also be wide spreading and invasive, crowding out other plants and choking up their food supplies.





I have wild violets in my garden. They're really pretty in bloom and their leaves are like ivy. But they're growing all over the place, in my hosta bed, all over my roses, and they're creeping into the neighbour's yard so that they'll have to deal with them as well, which is sort of inconsiderate. Pretty... but too much.