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Some people here do ravel in gross intellectualization attempts to explain things as trivial as non-native plants...

Not all non-native plants are invasive or have devastating effects on the ecosystems balance. Ya gotta look at the context in which they were introduced. Plantain herbs, found more in the northeastern NA, were introduced by early settlers as survival food due to their lack of knowledge of plants found here. It used to be cultivated, but abandoned in favor of other (lesser sustainable) plants. They do not appear to have threatened any other native plants around.

But there's been plenty of mindless fools bringing exotic plants just out of some intent to show off, while the governments have also introduced the phragmite to the side of the highways, for one or two reasons. So yeah it's important to be replanting native plants like cattails as not only they are very useful, underrated plants, but also appear to be contributing to the richness of moist environments.