What does ruderal mean?
Ruderal means (botany) Any plant growing in rubbish or very poor soil.
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Pronunciation varies by accent · noun
(botany) Any plant growing in rubbish or very poor soil.
Rafinesque perfected his variant of this honorable philosophy while botanizing in the literal backyards of my childhood, examining ruderal plants I've known all my life, and so I have appropriated it from him, with minor tweaks.
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Ruderal means (botany) Any plant growing in rubbish or very poor soil.
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Rafinesque perfected his variant of this honorable philosophy while botanizing in the literal backyards of my childhood, examining ruderal plants I've known all my life, and so I have appropriated it from him, with minor tweaks.
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