Talk:Potentilla hickmanii

I know it's endangered and all, but as a herb with a definition of "culinary, medicinal, or in some cases even spiritual value", what does it taste like? Or its medical value? Bihal 00:08, 16 June 2006 (UTC)


 * good question bihal. havent seen any citations in the literature as to medicinal or culinary value.  as to taste, i havent tasted one, since the species is endangered :) Covalent 20:36, 16 June 2006 (UTC)
 * "herb" is used here in its botanical definition. A definition that takes half of the herb article, not in its culinary meaning. Circeus 01:10, 17 June 2006 (UTC)
 * Roger that. Bihal 02:14, 19 June 2006 (UTC)

Good Article nomination has failed
The Good article nomination for has failed
 * The language is in many cases too technical. Consider the first couple of sentences:
 * Hickman’s potentilla is a rosetted non-glandular flowering plant with a thick taproot.[1] It has a stem that is prostrate to decumbent, of variable length five to forty five centimeters, which may occur in a glabrous manifestation

What does non-glandular mean? What does decumbent mean? What does glabrous mean? These all need explaining for the non-botanist. Worldtraveller 20:30, 15 July 2006 (UTC)

Passed GA
This article is a GA quality article on a little-known plant. Before trying to make it a FA, I'd reccomend looking at the subpage for the nomination, to see what people objected to. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Some P. Erson (talk • contribs)

Conservation, URGENT
I'm very interested in finding a source to the claims in the first two paragraphs of the conservation section.

"In the year 1973 the state of California recognized Hickman's potentilla as an endangered species. In the early to mid 1990s, a series of steps occurred that led to federal classification as an endangered species. Certain land development proposals came before the city of Monterey related to pine forest habitat area. In preparing an Environmental Impact Report, information on occurrences of Hickman's potentilla was published.[8][9] Subsequently in 1995 the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) acted on this new information regarding a species that some thought extinct, and promulgated a notice of intent to classify the species as endangered.

In 1998, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service officially classified Hickman's potentilla as endangered. After the FWS nomination process, further colonies in San Mateo and Sonoma Counties became defined. This chain of events illustrates the role of the Environmental Impact Statement in elucidating scientific information germane to the understanding of an entire species, beyond the intended role of analyzing effects on the physical environment of a specific project."

Please contact me urgently if you can provide any source of information. The external links given on this page describe how the species is now listed as endangered, but they do not describe how and if the Environmental impact assessment process contributed to this. This is the information I am searching for.

Thanks