Bee populations are in decline, and Cheerios wants to help. So far, so good. But they are sending free packets of wildflower seeds to people all over the country—and some of the flowers included are invasive species that, in some areas, you should probably not plant.
Forget-me-not (listed above but, the seed packager told me on 3/21/2017, not included in the seed mix) is banned as a noxious weed in Massachusetts and Connecticut, for example. The California poppy is nice in California, but listed as an "invasive exotic pest plant" in southeastern states. And many of the flowers on this list are not native to anywhere in the US, so they are not necessarily good matches for our local bees.
http://lifehacker.com/don-t-plant-those-bee-friendly-wildflowers-cheerios-i-1793370883
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(Score: 2) by sjames on Tuesday March 28 2017, @02:55AM (3 children)
Actually the California Poppy is shown as native in parts of the Southeast. UGA's extension service recommends them for flower gardens in Georgia. There is a reference to them being invasive but the link is dead.
Since the forget-me-nots aren't actually in the packet, they won't be a problem either.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday March 28 2017, @03:19AM (1 child)
Yeah this article seems more like a click-baity thing that had to really stretch the truth in order to get published.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday March 29 2017, @10:01AM
So, a marketing gimmick, as promised.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday March 28 2017, @03:04PM
They forgot the forget-me-nots?