Wikipedia:Good article reassessment/Flora of Scotland/1
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There are "update needed" orange banners for climate change and conservation. There are also uncited statements in "Conservation". Z1720 (talk) 14:41, 3 June 2025 (UTC)
- I don't see why the "update needed" banners apply here. Lavateraguy (talk) 15:26, 4 June 2025 (UTC)
"Much of the Scottish coastline consists of machair, a fertile dune pasture land formed as sea levels subsided after the last ice age."
- I think that "much" is an overstatement. Machair is restricted to some west-facing coasts in northwest Scotland (especially the Hebrides) and also northwest Ireland (Connemara and Donegal). Machair depends on sand with a high calcareous (shell) content blown inland onto the land, but I don't think it's accurate to described is as "dune pasture land". (Though machair does use that phrasing.)
- Also it's not so much sea levels subsiding as the land rising due to isostatic rebound, leading to the raised beaches on which machair commonly develops. Lavateraguy (talk) 18:20, 3 June 2025 (UTC)
The Grand Fir mentioned near the start of the article as the tallest tree in Britain has been overtaken by many other trees over the last 20-odd years; the current holder is a 70 m Douglas-fir in Wales. I'll remove the mention as (since it is a planted tree, not part of the natural flora) it isn't very significant anyway - MPF (talk) 22:28, 3 June 2025 (UTC)
Epipactis (helleborine var.) youngiana is not now considered a species, nor is it endemic to Scotland. Refactor into elsewhere in the article, or just delete? Lavateraguy (talk) 12:10, 4 June 2025 (UTC)
Why are lichens (and not various algal groups) including in the scope of this article? Lavateraguy (talk) 15:27, 4 June 2025 (UTC)
- I've transferred the lichen section to Natural history of Scotland. Cremastra (Go Oilers!) 21:04, 12 June 2025 (UTC)