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(I'm barging in at the top of the page because it's been dormant, as I was warned.)
I've come here from sharing info from the USDA Native Plants database to a low-priority stub article. But the whole reason I landed there was wanting to see where the particular plant comes from, so I can decide whether to plant it in my flower bed or a container. I still don't have that clear, but it would be a great help to such as me if we tried to add native/invasive and even endangered/wetland status wherever we can.
Bkswrites (
talk) 17:27, 23 June 2017 (UTC)reply
Good Job
Good job creating this portal.I have a something to suggest why don't you put a Selected species section ? I will help to if help is needed
Bewareofdog (
talk) 22:06, 24 November 2007 (UTC).
Bewareofdog (
talk) 22:05, 24 November 2007 (UTC)reply
I think it's pretty obvious most "selected articles" will be plants.
Circeus (
talk) 22:29, 24 November 2007 (UTC)reply
Hi Bewareofdog and circeus, i have apoint to make. we can have selected spieces section but majority of the selected articles would be of the speicies not all but most of them. any more suggestions please.
Sushant gupta (
talk) 09:48, 25 November 2007 (UTC)reply
I notice that this is a start article with top importance... I'd really appreciate some help getting to grips with this. Thanks for any contributions you can make, --
Dan|(talk) 13:40, 27 April 2009 (UTC)reply
Help needed with scientific classification of Carum carvi (caraway)
The scientific classification of Carum carvi (caraway) given in the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) PLANTS Profile -
http://plants.usda.gov/java/profile?symbol=CACA19 - is quite different from that given in the Wikipedia article. Would a plant expert please check this out? Thanks.
Timothy Cooper (
talk) 08:17, 7 October 2009 (UTC)reply
The taxobox in the Wikipedia article is correct. We use the
APG II system of classification. The USDA PLANTS database uses an older system, the
Cronquist system, I believe. --
Rkitko(
talk) 12:04, 7 October 2009 (UTC)reply
(not too) Good job
I had/have quite some difficultis to understand the structure of this project and where I can place the informations I have to be discussed. Example: There´s an articel about a special plant that I´m afraid of to contain wrong information - where to place that doubts?.
Allmende (
talk) 15:07, 19 December 2010 (UTC)reply
Most of the people that could help you keep an eye on
Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Plants. It's the location where we discuss all project-related issues. Feel free to raise your issue there and I'm sure a few kind folks will be more than happy to help. Cheers,
Rkitko(
talk) 15:49, 19 December 2010 (UTC)reply
Standard measurements missing
Nearly every species I look up seems to have it's listed heights, sizes etc. shown only in metric measurements. This is virtually worthless to any reader in the U.S. I am of the opinion that all North American grown species (and likely true for Britain as well), should automatically have measurements listed in both Standard and metric terms, and should be considered incomplete/missing information without them. — Preceding
unsigned comment added by
OhioAtty (
talk •
contribs) 16:17, 29 June 2011 (UTC)reply
This is not the space to discuss this, but as long as I am here... See
WP:UNITS. It encourages using the most common unit in the world for that measurement. That's probably the metric. However, I usually go by the sources I use. I feel that if a source says a plant is 5 cm tall, I write that. It may not be right for me to convert it and present that value and reference the source. You can also use {{
convert}} to automatically produce the other unit. All that being said, it is an enormous job to edit all of the plant articles to make units standardized. Feel free to make a dent in it, if you wish.
Rkitko(
talk) 22:03, 29 June 2011 (UTC)reply
Edit to "Centaurea Montana"
I was unable to find a way to "talk" on the Wikipedia page regarding Centaurea Montana
("
http://en.wikipedia.org/?title=Centaurea_montana&action=edit"), as all it does is refer people to "Plant Portal". I wished to explain why I had changed the word "endemic" to "original".
Wikipedia's own definition of "endemic" ("
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Endemic_%28ecology%29") says: "...organisms that are indigenous to a place are not endemic to it if they are also found elsewhere."
Since Centaurea Montana "... escapes from gardens readily, and has thereby become established in the
British Isles,
Scandinavia and
North America.", it cannnot therefore correctly be called endemic to Europe.
I wanted to be on the record as to why I changed the site.
Every page here has a corresponding "Talk" page, which you can access by clicking on the "Talk" link at the top of the page towards the left - see
Help:Using talk pages. I've copied your message here to
Talk:Centaurea montana. --
John of Reading (
talk) 06:08, 20 May 2012 (UTC)reply
what plant
Does anybody know what flower is
this?
Is there an article for that? — Preceding
unsigned comment added by
199.201.125.150 (
talk) 07:54, 30 August 2014 (UTC)reply
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Hello,
I've been looking at the Plants Portal and was a little confused on the Did You Know section. Does this section automatically cycle through a set of DYKs every so often or is is manual user editing? Looking at the archive it doesn't seem like there are many hooks that have gone through there. The reason I'm asking is to find out where, or if, I can propose new DYKs, and what the requirements are for the articles (e.g. if they're as lofty as the front page requirements).
@
Fritzmann2002:, if you look at
Portal:Plants/Did you know, you'll see that the DYKs displayed are completely hard-coded and must be manually edited. Many portals have a set of DYK subpages that each package maybe 4-5 DYKs together with the subpages randomly cycled through. That approach could be adopted here, but WikiProject Portals is currently working on upgrades to the Portal system. While they haven't done anything with DYKs yet, I'd guess that future changes would involve selecting several DYKs totally at random (rather than having sets of 4-5 that are always packaged together). Some WikiProjects (e.g.
Wikipedia:WikiProject_Fishes#Did you know? articles) make use of a bot that keeps a running list of DYKs relevant to the project. That would probably be the way to get a more extensive list of existing plant-related DYKs that could be displayed in this Portal (see
User:JL-Bot/Project_content for directions on using the bot).
I'm am assuming when you say "new DYKs" that you're asking about pre-existing DYKs that would be "new" to this portal. If you're talking about completely new DYKs, see
WP:DYK.
Plantdrew (
talk) 21:54, 15 May 2018 (UTC)reply
Subpage
/Recognized content has been created. It will allow automating the "Selected article" section of the portal page. —
andrybak (
talk) 15:23, 7 November 2020 (UTC)reply
Nick Moyes, would you like me to update the "Selected picture" box to use the recently introduced
Template:Portal pictures? All but five
selected pictures on the portal have POTD subpages. All already selected pictures will be preserved. Here's how it would look on the portal:
German chamomile (Matricaria recutita) is an
annual plant of the
sunflower family
Asteraceae. The
flowers are borne in
paniculatecapitula called calathids. The white ray florets have a single fused five-parted
ligule, while the disc florets are yellow. In Northern temperate regions the flowers bloom in June and July and have a strong, aromatic smell.
Swamp Milkweed (Asclepias incarnata) is a
herbaceous plant species native to
North America. It is found growing in damp to wet soils and is also cultivated as a garden plant for its attractive flowers that are visited by
butterflies. Like most other
milkweeds, it has sap with toxic chemicals, used to repel
insects and
herbivorous animals.
The flower of a Red Flowering Gum (Corymbia ficifolia), one of the most commonly planted
ornamental trees in the broader
eucalyptus family. It is native to a very small area of
South Coast Western Australia, but is not considered under threat in the wild. The
common name is somewhat of a misnomer, as the flowers may not necessarily be red, nor is it really a gum tree, but a
bloodwood instead.
A
flower and
leaves of a Pink Knotweed (Persicaria capitata), an
ornamental plant native to Asia. It is a
prostrate herb with leaves that are 1–6 cm (0.4–2.4 in) long and 7–30 mm (0.3–1.2 in) wide, and
spikes that are 5–10 mm (0.2–0.4 in) long and 5–7 mm (0.2–0.3 in) in diameter.
The flower of a Blessed milk thistle (Silybum marianum). Originally a native of
Southern Europe through to
Asia, it is now found throughout the world and considered an invasive
weed. Thistles can be toxic to
cattle and
sheep, but their extract can be used to cure
amanita poisoning. A different extract can also be found in
Rockstar Energy Drink.
The
fruit of Leptecophylla juniperina, a
flowering plant native to
New Zealand and southeastern
Australia. In New Zealand, it is known as Prickly Heath and Prickly Mingimingi, and one subspecies in
Tasmania is called Pink Mountain Berry. The plants grow best in areas with moderate winters and cool moist summers, and the fruit is edible.
The flower of an opium poppy (Papaver somniferum) in three stages of development. From left to right, the bud, the flower, and finally the seed capsule. The plant is used to derive
opium and
poppy seeds. The Latin
botanical name means the "sleep-bringing poppy", referring to the sedative properties of some of the
opiates—
narcotics derived from opium.
Cirsium vulgare is a species of thistle in the plant family
Asteraceae. Native to Europe and Western Asia, it has become
naturalised in North America, Africa and Australia, and is an
invasive weed in some areas. It is a
ruderal species, able to colonise bare ground, but also persists well on pasture as its thorny leaves and stems make it unpalatable to most grazing animals. The flowers are rich in
nectar, attracting bees and butterflies, and the seeds are a favourite with
goldfinches,
linnets and
greenfinches. The downy
pappus, which assists in
wind dispersal of the seeds, is used by birds as nest-lining material.
Pines are mostly
monoecious, though a few species are
sub-dioecious. The male
cones are small, typically 1–5 cm long, falling as soon as they have shed their
pollen. The larger female cones, such as this
Monterey Pine cone, are typically 3–60 cm long, having numerous spirally arranged scales with two seeds on each fertile scale.
Grandidier's baobab (Adansonia grandidieri) is the biggest and most famous of Madagascar's six
baobab species. It has a massive cylindrical trunk, up to 3 m (9.8 ft) across, and can reach up to 25 m (82 ft) in height. The large, dry fruits of the baobab contain kidney-shaped seeds within an edible pulp. It is named after the French botanist and explorer
Alfred Grandidier, who documented many of the animals and plants of Madagascar.
Hypericum calycinum is a low-growing
shrub indigenous to southeast Europe and southwest Asia, but widely
cultivated for its large yellow flowers. It is a popular, semi-
evergreen garden shrub with many named
cultivars and
hybrids derived from it.
Immature
cones of a Colorado Blue Spruce (Picea pungens), a species of
spruce native to western
North America. It is a medium-sized evergreen tree growing to 25 to 30 metres (82 to 98 ft) tall, exceptionally to 46 m (151 ft) tall, and with a trunk diameter of up to 1.5 m (4.9 ft). The cones are slender and
cylindrical, 6–11 centimetres (2.4–4.3 in) long, and are reddish to violet in color, maturing to pale brown 5–7 months after
pollination. The Blue Spruce is the
state tree of
Utah and
Colorado.
The Rose Geranium (Pelargonium graveolens) is a plant indigenous to various parts of southern Africa, and in particular
South Africa. This specific species has great importance in the
perfume industry. Its
cultivars have a wide variety of smells, including
rose,
citrus,
mint,
coconut and
nutmeg, as well as various
fruits.
Many of the articles at
Portal:Plants/Selected articles are featured-class articles, and featured-class articles are now being transcluded on the Featured articles section of the portal. The remaining articles in the Selected articles are GA-class (from spot-checks). So, I replaced the Selected article section in the portal with a Good articles section, to eliminate redundancy and potential for the same FA-class articles to be displayed twice on the page in both the FA and Selected article sections (
diff). The new Good articles section only displays GA-class articles. North America1000 22:30, 5 February 2021 (UTC)reply