'' what would the earth look like without native and wild plants?
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Naked
Actually, that's true ...
When I bought my house, everything was covered with snow. I thought the house pad in the back yard was lawn. HA HA ! The joke was on me. It was covered with weed barrier and decorative rock ! When I had that scraped away, the soil, if you could call it that, would not even grow weeds. It was dead "soil". It's taken years of hauling in organic material to bring it to life. You can't buy soil up here in the mountains. I had to build the soil.
I guess in some ways, I should be grateful it can now grow weeds ...
... even oxalis ...