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–Mrs. Laura Bush
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Why Native Plants?
Native plants are indigenous to a particular region or ecosystem. National parks are home to complex ecosystems that represent our natural heritage. Native plants help form that heritage and foster healthy communities of plants, animals and other organisms.
Invasive, non-native plants, on the other hand, are one of the greatest threats to the natural ecosystems of the U.S. and are destroying America's natural history and identity. National parks are constantly threatened by the invasion of such species as well as by human-caused disturbances that foster the existence of non-native species.
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