Talk:Argentina anserina
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Renaming[edit]
Don't want to appear argumentative about this, but could we have a citation for the renaming of Potentilla anserina to Argentina anserina please? Plantsurfer (talk) 15:14, 16 July 2008 (UTC)
- Found something. Taxonomic reorganization can be difficult to source, but surely the fact all major database list it as Argentina should have been pertinent? Circeus (talk) 02:47, 17 July 2008 (UTC)
- That reference is now (5 years later) broken. The renaming isn't yet universal - the current standard British Flora still has this (and Dasiphora) in Potentilla.
other names[edit]
Scottish Plants http://193.62.154.38/cgi-bin/nph-readbtree.pl/usedata/maxvals=10/firstval=1?SPECIES_XREF=Potentilla+anserina
Potentilla anserina The roots taste like parsnips and were often used by the people of Scotland, either roast or boiled. In Coll and Tiree, they were particularly valued as a famine food. Bibliographic reference: Lightfoot, J. (1777) Flora Scotica. B. White, London. Lists quite a few other names. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.27.162.232 (talk) 23:16, 17 November 2009 (UTC)