Journal 2: October EcoQuest
I found it hard to find the common mugwort, and was quite upset that I couldn’t find it. I originally started by looking in Riverside Park because I wasn’t sure where to begin, but I didn’t have much luck there, as there didn’t seem to be any easily spotted common mugwort. I looked up mugwort and learned that it was a weed, so I tried to look for plants that were similar looking to weeds and also the images I found of mugwort on google. Although I couldn’t find any weeds that looked remotely like common mugwort, I did find some beautiful sumacs that were orangey-red. I decided to keep looking for mugwort in November, but still could not find it. In order to make up for not finding mugwort (and to make myself remember that it’s okay not to find it), I decided to take pictures of the plants I found most picture-worthy and interesting. I found some Asteroideae plants, which I noticed because of their pretty small white flowers that were in clusters. I also found fungie with lichens on a log, which I thought was pretty cool!
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I find it interesting that you seem to think that there is a phenotype for "a weed" when really there is such a wide biodiversity of different types of plants that are considered weedy. This is even true for one of the most useful and economically important ways that the word "weed" is used, which is in agriculture when a farmer has a crop and then non-crop weedy competitors to the planted crop. There, again, there may be a few particularly common weeds but even weeds of agricultural crops are weedy, diverse, and may even be rather beautiful in their leaf traits or flower or fruit traits.
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