Even though disciplines like cultural studies aren’t generally connected to researching living beings, we as people are, as a matter of fact, unbreakably bonded by our relationships towards the other lifeforms that surround us. This transcends the purely biological domain of our relations, manifesting in our social and cultural lives through a myriad of representations and symbolisms, through which we express our experiences of interacting with a living world, seeking ways to describe them through the repertoire of vocabulary and other forms of knowledge that we acquire along the way. The consequence of this is that sometimes, we might lean towards categories that are incapable of telling the whole story, but which can also lead to a kind of representational injustice, while also capable of robbing us of important and potentially formative experiences, for us as individuals, but also on the level of communities in which we dwell. This work is intended as a way to explore so called social constructs, these categories through which we try to give the world meaning, parcticulary those pretaining to plants. As will be presented, their role in our everyday perception is often minimally acknowledged, though we seem to be heavily disposed to noticing and marking them whenever their presence is deemed to be unwanted. Thus, the term “weed” will be our main point of interest, as will its connections to other similar attempts at interpreting the world through properties of belonging and taking up space. The attempt of this analysis shall be to point out some potential sources of this such stifling term and a call to creation of a widened and engaged set of knowledge and aspirations, which can help us achieve new relations and experiences towards the living beings that surrounds us, and also one which seems that more urgent in a world that is, more than ever before, haunted by the possibility of ecological crisis.