Talk:Hickman's potentilla

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	Hickman's potentilla has been listed as one of the Natural sciences good articles under the good article criteria. If you can improve it further, please do. If it no longer meets these criteria, you can delist it, or ask for a reassessment.
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An entry from Hickman's potentilla appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know? column on 15 June 2006.

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)

[edit] Good Article nomination has failed

The Good article nomination for Hickman's potentilla has failed, for the following reason(s):

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)

[edit] 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)