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ruderal

adjective

  1. of a plant, growing on waste ground
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noun

  1. that which is characterised by growth on waste ground
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Wiktionary

adj

Etymology: Borrowed from New Latin rūderālis, from Latin rūdus (“rubble”).

  1. That grows in rubbish or poor soil

    Rafinesque perfected his variant of this honorable philosophy while botanizing in the literal backyards of my childhood, examining ruderal plants I've known all my life, and so I have appropriated it from him, with minor tweaks.

noun

Etymology: Borrowed from New Latin rūderālis, from Latin rūdus (“rubble”).

  1. Any plant growing in rubbish or very poor soil
  2. A plant tending to volunteer in disturbed soil.