![]() ![]() And just like other plant communities within their respective ecosystems, these wild, urban plant communities provide a suite of ecological services vital to the health of our urban ecosystems. Given enough time – and prolonged lack of intervention – such vegetation will proceed along the process of ecological successionin the same way that plant communities in natural areas do. ![]() ![]() They vegetate sectors of our city that have been abandoned, overlooked, or routinely neglected. These are plants capable of establishing and sustaining themselves outside of human cultivation and management, and are found in abundance beyond the borders of our tidy gardens and manicured landscapes. As discussed last week, our wild, urban flora is a cosmopolitan mixture of plants that were either native to the area before it was developed, introduced from all corners of the world on purpose or by accident, or brought in by migrating wildlife. ![]()
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