I had a huge laugh after reading this article ! I was born and raised on a reservation in New Mexico. Other then flowering cactus, wild flowers and blooming yucca not too much grew there. Once New Mexico had been"invaded" a few Hollyhocks, irises, a bush rose and lilacs grew.......but only in my greatgrandmother's yard grew this awesome yellow flower ! As kids we loved to sneak over and pick it and bite the end of the flower off because we thought it had honey. 
Years flash by, after living forty-four in Alaska, I visit Anchorage one summer (from my home in Ketchikan) and there I see, gasp........the rare flower that grew in my greatgrandmother's yard ! I was so excited ! I went and dug up several and carried them home with me. No matter where I planted them here they died! I assumed that such a special and rare flower was too delicate to survive our Ketchikan rain.
Tonight I read this article and discovered that my lifelong obsession with this golden honey flower is an invasive weed ?

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