wild plants

Nature's untended greenery

Wild plants are vegetation that grows without human cultivation or care—species that propagate naturally rather than being deliberately planted, tended, or bred.

The term often distinguishes edible or useful plants found in nature from their domesticated counterparts: She foraged for wild plants along the riverbank.

Wild plants may be native species or naturalized escapees from gardens that now spread on their own.

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cultivation status

wild plantscrops

Cultivated plants for harvest

garden plants · cultivars · ornamental plants · cash crops · houseplants

domestication

wild plantsheirloom varieties

Traditional, non-hybrid plant strains

origin/setting

wild plantsformal gardens

Deliberately structured ornamental landscapes

managed forests · tree farms

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