I just bought some leadplant seeds from Oikos. Sometimes I get too excited about something and don't do my due diligence first. In this case I find out Amorpha fruticosa is a
Class B noxious weed in Washington state.
But these seeds are Amorpha canescens, and nothing says they are "invasive". The internet, in its charming addled way, thinks they're both "false indigo" and it's hard to parse information when so few use scientific names. Years ago I would have had a hysterical reaction and burned all the seeds, praying in tongues to Gaia. Now I know that species is everything: Amanita pantherina, good. Amanita phalloides HELL NO. Sagittaria latifolia, everyone's excited and plenty of info. Sagittaria platyphylla, ...crickets. (Except for the general statement that all Sagittarias are edible.) Carya ovata, let's make pawcohiccora! Carya cordiformis, yucky*. And many other examples (
feel free to list, that's the only one I could come up with quickly)!
How would you proceed in this case? And more generally, have you found any patterns or rules to guide you in the Right Genus Wrong Species question? This is 1000 seeds so I will be the mother of disaster (and an Enemy of the State) if I plant them throughout the property.
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*more complex than that.