Template:Did you know nominations/Flora of the Sierra Nevada alpine zone


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The result was: promoted by Hawkeye7 (talk) 20:06, 8 September 2014 (UTC)

Flora of the Sierra Nevada alpine zone

 * ... that the flora of the Sierra Nevada alpine zone includes alpine pussypaws, alpine gold, alpine paintbrush and even shooting stars?

Created by FloraWilde (talk). Nominated by Skr15081997 (talk) at 14:11, 13 August 2014 (UTC).


 * ALT1... that botanists have ranked the Sierra Nevada alpine zone floral bloom as one of California's foremost wildflower displays, with flowers of fantastic color and abundance?
 * ALT2... that one can find pygmy saxifrage (pictured) growing in damp, shaded places under overhanging rocks, from 11,000 feet (3,400 m), to over 14,000 feet in the Sierra Nevada alpine zone?--Skr15081997 (talk) 10:33, 14 August 2014 (UTC)


 * Symbol voting keep.svg This substantial article was created on 6th August and is both new enough and long enough. Any of the three hooks could be used (only one of them refers to the image) as all the hook facts are cited. It was not possible to verify the hook facts because of the offline nature of the copious sources nor was it possible to determine whether there was any plagiarism or close paraphrasing. The image is appropriately licensed and no QPQ review needs to be done. I have changed the capitalisation of some words in the hooks. Cwmhiraeth (talk) 10:48, 7 September 2014 (UTC)