Residency status for archaeophyte and neo-native plants

You can check the iNat definitions of these terms which are:
Native
evolved in this region or arrived by non-anthropogenic means
Endemic
native and occurs nowhere else
Introduced
arrived in the region via anthropogenic means

So neo-natives would be Native (as seems appropriate) and Archaeophytes would be Introduced.

You can see some discussion of terms here:
https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/the-definition-of-endemic/21474/14
but there are other threads as well

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