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 Village_pump_(proposals) Regards, Nick Moyes (talk) 19:29, 10 April 2018 (UTC)

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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)


 * , 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. WikiProject_Fishes) 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 Village pump (proposals). 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
, 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:

—⁠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)