Native Plants

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Opuntia sp. growing in a garden on the Hogback just west of Metro Denver, CO

What makes a plant “native”?

Doug Tallamy and Rick Darke define a native plant in their book The Living Landscape as: “a plant or animal that has evolved in a given place over a period of time sufficient to develop complex and essential relationships with the physical environment and other organisms in a given ecological community.”

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