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WikiProject Plants
Founded 20 August 2004
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Some Wikipedians have formed a project to better organize information in articles related to plants. This page and its subpages contain their suggestions; it is hoped that this project will help to focus the efforts of other Wikipedians. If you would like to help, please inquire on the talk page and see the to-do list. To join the project, add your username to the list at Wikipedia:WikiProject Plants/Participants, or just jump in.

Scope and goals

This WikiProject aims primarily to describe all plants, that is, all species belonging to the kingdom Plantae. This project's scope also includes botanists and botany-related articles.

Goals:

1. Describe all families, genera and species of the kingdom Plantae.
2. For species, describe botanical properties, distribution, multiplication, usage (medicine, food, etc.), botanical history, cultivation information, and common names.
3. Develop and implement a robust method of naming plant article for the ease of navigation and searching for Wikipedia users.
4. Maintain Category:Plants and its subcategories.

WikiProject family tree

This WikiProject is an offshoot of WikiProject Tree of Life

• WikiProject Science.

• WikiProject Biology

• WikiProject Tree of Life

• WikiProject Plants

• WikiProject Banksia
• WikiProject Carnivorous plants
• WikiProject Horticulture and Gardening
• WikiProject Plant Evo Devo a subproject
• WikiProject Trees might be considered a subproject.
• WikiProject Herbalism might be considered a subproject that spans the WikiProject Plants and the WikiProject medicine.

Related WikiProjects

See also: Wikipedia:WikiProject Council/Directory

• Wikipedia:WikiProject Agriculture Plants as food crops; forest products

Similar WikiProjects

• WikiProject Fungi is an analogous project concerning the Kingdom Fungi. WikiProject Fungi was originally modeled after WikiProject Plants, though modified to fit the needs of writing about mycological topics.
• Wikipedia:WikiProject Prokaryotes and protists is where most algae topics fit
• WikiProject Ecoregions works in flora articles by ecoregions.

Plant articles		Importance
		Top	High	Mid	Low	None	Total
Quality
	FA		3	4	5		12
	A		1		3		4
	GA	2	4	12	13		31
	B	36	109	128	87		360
	C	1	23	43	20	1	88
	Start	34	300	1050	1319	20	2723
	Stub		106	1532	7093	14064	22795
	Assessed	73	546	2769	8540	14085	26013
	Unassessed				1	3861	3862
	Total	73	546	2769	8541	17946	29875

Plant article naming conventions

See also: Wikipedia:Naming conventions (flora).

Article naming for flora articles differs from standard TOL policy in the following ways:

Scientific names are to be used as page titles in all cases except the following, as determined on a case-by-case basis through discussion on the WikiProject Plants talk page:

1. Agricultural and horticultural cases in which multiple different products stem from the same species (eg. brussel sprouts, cabbage & broccoli). In such a case, a separate page with the botanical description of the entire species is preferred (eg. Brassica oleracea).
2. Plants which are economically or culturally significant enough to merit their own page, using the common name as a title, describing their use. Example: Coffee. (A) separate page(s) with the botanical description(s) of the taxa involved, using the scientific name, is preferred.
3. Where a genus is monospecific (has only a single species), the article should be named after the genus, with the species name as a redirect. If a family contains only one genus, the article should still be at the genus name, as that is more likely to be commonly recognised.

Common names (vernacular names) are to redirect to scientific names.

• English sundew → Drosera anglica

The redirect page can be placed in categories and tagged as printworthy. For example see Golden bladderwort, which has the content

#REDIRECT [[Utricularia aurea]] {{R printworthy}}

[[Category:Utricularia species by common name]]

Ambiguous common names, applied to multiple taxa, are to be listed on a disambiguation page.

• Tree peony (disambiguation)

All known common names for a taxon are to be listed in the article about that taxon.

• Hesperoyucca whipplei (syn. Yucca whipplei; Our Lord's Candle, Spanish Bayonet, Quixote Yucca, Common Yucca) is a species of flowering plant...

Recent activity on plants articles

See Wikipedia:WikiProject Plants/Article alerts for a list of plant articles proposed for deletion, featured article, and other such actions.