The spread of invasive plant species in ecosystems results in displacement of native species, and a disruption to overall biodiversity of an area. Looking at the amount of non-native plant species that are brought into new environments it is easy to believe that all non-native species would be invasive. In reality, very few species actually do become invasive. This leads to the question, why don’t all non-native species become invasive and rapidly change biodiversity in new ecosystems. One suggestion is that invading plant species are able to change their phenotypes quickly to adjust to a new environment and thus thrive over native species, this is phenotype plasticity. Looking at trends in climate change it is also understood that plants have
