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You get off the plane and all around are people speaking a language you are not fluent in, buildings in an unfamiliar architectural style and street birds you don’t recognize. But look, there is a plant you do know—a marigold or a dandelion or a daisy. A few plants are really cosmopolitan, found all over the world. Who are they and how did they get around? Here are the stories of eighteen plants you might meet on most continents.

Did you know?

• African marigolds are not from Africa and French marigolds are not from France, both are from the Americas.
• Bougainvillea is the official flower of places from California to China to Malaysia.
• Dandelions are edible and were used as medicine, so people took them along when they settled in distant places.
• Purslane is an excellent vegetable which has escaped to become a weed.
• Downy brome, cheatgrass, is so abundant that it is not on noxious weed lists because eradicating it, as is intended for noxious weeds, is considered impossible.

Stories of these and thirteen other widely distributed plants will let you enjoy them when you see them.

These and more are the stories of 15 of the most visible plants of Northern Colorado, told in this book.

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