User:MtBotany

"'I provide the people of this community with plant articles and plant article accessories.' — MtHill, from King of the WikiHill 'Pilot' (2023)"

🌿 Strong interest in the plants of western N. America and the genus Penstemon. I will take requests to work on entries for vascular plant species native to the Southern Rocky Mountain states, e.g. Colorado, New Mexico, or Wyoming. Leave a request on my talk page. My variously named sandboxes often contain edits to existing pages that I'm working on, see Pages in progress below.

More articles edited by 🌿MtBotany.

Pages in progress:

 * Draft:Flora of Colorado
 * Editors are welcome to contribute to this project to make a good list of all the species of plant that grow in Colorado. The list is complete and currently I am checking the information and adding in additional information from other sources.
 * Sandkasten
 * Sandbord
 * Sandbox
 * Search for Drafts created by MtBotany

A plant rant
You should read what an editor had to say about stub articles.. in the 1751 L'Encyclopédie at the entry for Urena lobata. The magnificent rant was written by Denis Diderot and makes me feel a great kinship with this writer across time. No stubs!

COI declaration
I am a member of the Colorado Native Plant Society. I also sometimes submit material to the society's newsletter, but I pledge that I will do my best not to excessively promote the society and to only give due weight to materials published in the newsletter. But I recognize that I will have an unconscious bias in favor of groups that I feel well disposed towards and will defer to the judgement of other editors on if content that I add is non-notable in their view. This account is not a single purpose account, I'm just somewhat obsessively interested in plants. Any questions may be directed towards my talk page or the talk page of relevant articles.

🌿Useful resources
Links and tips, a personal list, but may be useful for anyone editing pages about plant species:
 * Plant Article Template - PlantsProject Ref List
 * World Ferns For Ferns and Lycophytes, cite using Template:Cite WF
 * Usage put in the name of the species into taxon:
 * Plants of the World Online (POWO) for all other vascular plants, cite using Template:Cite POWO
 * In this example grab the ID from the end of the URL
 * Flora of North America, one of the best places to find botanical descriptions outside books.
 * Cite with species or genus name italicized as the page name appended with " - FNA" and "Flora of North America" as the site name.
 * Flora of the Four Corners Region at Archive.org
 * An excellent book for plants of the southwest
 * USDA PLANTS Database Very useful for getting more precise range information for the US. Cite using Template:Cite usda plants
 * Do not try to italicize species names with this template.
 * NatureServe Explorer for plants not on IUCN Red List
 * Adding the following tag and line to the plant box will pull the status from Wikidata if available. Best practice is to put it under the image. Also add a reference if not invoked somewhere else on the page. |status =  |status_system = TNC  |status_ref =
 * The Wikipedia Library, access granted when a user has more than 500 edits across all wikis.
 * Biodiversity Heritage Library, the first place I search for more information.
 * Archive.Org The second place I look for old textbooks and taxonomic stuff.
 * Unfortunately using a link often pull incorrectly formatted information into the template builder, so be prepared to look at the title page like you're back in school. However, if you go to the page containing the data for the book/article on Biodiversity Library it may pull correct information except for occasionally weird formatted article names (All caps).
 * Doing a search on the species name with the limit of "site:.edu" or "site:.gov" or "site:.org" is excellent for turning up better internet sources of information than the average website. Though this does also narrow it to mostly American relevant sources if looking at dot gov sites and even some of the dot edu sites.
 * Don't forget to check foreign language Wikipedia projects for sources. The German Wikipedia in particular often will cite English language sources for plants.
 * World Flora Online
 * Cite WFO
 * iNaturalist is an excellent source of photos that are reasonably certain to accurately labeled. Also many botanists and professional upload photos there. Just be sure to carefully check the status of the photos, not all of them are free to use on projects like Wikipedia.
 * If you want to help with the Colorado Plant List here is blank entry information for Nature Serve statuses:
 * SE - Introduced style='background: pink' | SE
 * SNR - Status Not Reviewed style='background: #e5cfc3;' | SNR
 * S5 - Secure style='background: #006666;' | S5
 * S4 - Apparently Secure style='background: #006666;' | S4
 * S3 - Vulnerable style='background: #ffe135;' | S3
 * S2 - Imperiled style='background: #f7ad75;' | S2
 * S1 - Critically Imperiled style='background: #e96b6b;' | S1


 * Taxobox information