Portal talk:Plants

Promote information on native species?

(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)

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 neededBewareofdog (talk) 22:06, 24 November 2007 (UTC).Bewareofdog (talk) 22:05, 24 November 2007 (UTC)

I think it's pretty obvious most "selected articles" will be plants. Circeus (talk) 22:29, 24 November 2007 (UTC)

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)

Naming conventions

Hi! Should, e.g., Triticum dicoccum be a redirect to Emmer or versy-vicy? Thanks. Saintrain (talk) 12:54, 17 September 2008 (UTC)

It's best to ask the question regarding the naming convention at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Plants or Wikipedia talk:Naming conventions (flora). You can read the naming convention at WP:NC (flora). Cheers, Rkitko ^(talk) 22:56, 17 September 2008 (UTC)

Thanks. Saintrain (talk) 23:59, 17 September 2008 (UTC)

Help with Apomixis?

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)

I'm trying to research the terms monohaploid, prickle pollination (gynogenesis) and androgenesis. Can anyone help with simple definitions (in the context of plant (potato) breeding)? Cheers, --Dan|^(talk) 16:47, 27 April 2009 (UTC)

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)

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)

(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)

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)

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)

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)

Edit to "Centaurea Montana"

I was unable to find a way to "talk" on the Wikipedia page regarding Centaurea Montana ("http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?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.

-scott092707 — Preceding unsigned comment added by Scott092707 (talk • contribs) 18:50, 19 May 2012 (UTC)

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)

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)

Village Pump proposal to delete all Portals

Editors might be interested to see a discussion concerning the proposed deletion of all Portals across Wikipedia. See Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#RfC:_Ending_the_system_of_portals Regards, Nick Moyes (talk) 19:29, 10 April 2018 (UTC)

Notice from the Portals WikiProject

WikiProject Portals is back!

The project was rebooted and completely overhauled on April 17th, 2018. Its goals are to revitalize the entire portal system, make building and maintaining portals easier, support the ongoing improvement of portals and the editors dedicated to this, and design the portals of the future.

As of May 2nd, 2018, membership is at 60 editors, and growing. You are welcome to join us.

There are design initiatives for revitalizing the portals system as a whole, and for improving each component of portals. So far, 2 new dynamic components have been developed: Template:Transclude lead excerpt and Template:Transclude random excerpt.

Tools are provided for building and maintaining portals, including automated portals that update themselves in various ways.

And, if you are bored and would like something to occupy your mind, we have a wonderful task list.

From your friendly neighborhood Portals WikiProject. Hope to see you there. Sincerely,    — The Transhumanist   07:41, 2 May 2018 (UTC)

DYKs?

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).

Thanks, Fritzmann2002 22:39, 14 May 2018 (UTC)

@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)

Proposal to delete all portals

The discussion is at Wikipedia:Village pump (proposals)#Proposal to delete Portal space. Voceditenore (talk) 15:56, 22 September 2019 (UTC)

Portal:Plants/Recognized content

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)

Template:Portal pictures

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:

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  Opium poppy

  Photo: Joaquim Alves Gaspar

  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.
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  Pelargonium graveolens

  Photo credit: Laitche

  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.
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  Pink Knotweed

  Photo: Noodle snacks

  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.
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  Colorado Blue Spruce

  Photo credit: Noodle snacks

  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.
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  Polemonium reptans

  Photo: Kaldari

  Polemonium reptans is a perennial flowering plant native to eastern North America. It grows to 50 cm (20 in) tall, with pinnate leaves and five-petaled flowers about 1.3 cm (0.51 in) long. The root was common in traditional herbalism, but is rarely used today.
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  Red Flowering Gum

  Photo: Noodle snacks

  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.
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  Hypericum calycinum

  Photo credit: Noodle snacks

  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.
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  Sunflower

  Photo: Fir0002

  Sunflowers (Helianthus annuus) are large flowering plants native to the Americas. They most commonly grow to heights between 1.5 and 3.5 m (5 and 11 ft), although the tallest known sunflower reached 12 m (39 ft) high. The large inflorescence is composed of a flower head (or "composite flower") of numerous florets (small flowers) crowded together. The florets within the sunflower's cluster are arranged in a spiral pattern and will mature into seeds. The seeds are used as snack food, expeller pressed into sunflower oil, made into sunflower butter (a peanut butter alternative), or milled into flour.
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  Cirsium vulgare

  Photograph credit: Dominicus Johannes Bergsma

  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.
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  Pine Cone

  Pine

  Credit: User:Fir0002

  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.
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  Matricaria recutita

  Matricaria recutita

  Credit: User:Fir0002

  German chamomile (Matricaria recutita) is an annual plant of the sunflower family Asteraceae. The flowers are borne in paniculate capitula 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.
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  Alpine pasqueflower

  Photo: SiameseTurtle

  The fruit of an alpine pasqueflower (Pulsatilla alpina), an alpine plant found in the mountain ranges of central and southern Europe from central Spain to Croatia. It grows between 1,200 and 2,700 m (3,900 and 8,900 ft) above mean sea level and is mildly toxic. A number of subspecies are recognised, based largely on the form and hairiness of the leaves.
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  Leptecophylla juniperina

  Photo: Noodle snacks

  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.
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  Grandidier's baobab

  Photo: Bernard Gagnon

  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.
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  Blessed milk thistle

  Photo credit: Fir0002

  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.
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  Asclepias incarnata

  Photo credit: Derek Ramsey

  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.

—⁠andrybak (talk) 01:29, 10 December 2020 (UTC)

Article updates

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)