Talk:Virginia Bluebell

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USES? I thought your article was very well written and put together. The only thing that I can think of to expand on or add is maybe explaining what Pulmonary Disease is and how the plant helps to cure it. What is the chemical make-up that is in this plant that works to overcome that specific disease? Has research been done on it. A whole new section could be attributed to the medical uses of the Virginia Bluebell.

Confusion? In looking for information on your topic I came across a plant called 'cowslip.' You mentioned that another name for the Virginia Bluebell was also Virginia cowslip. Are these two plants related in any way? Are they the same plant?

-ksmithson


A.) Pulmonary Disease Information: After more research I was unable to find a reliable source about the medicinal use of the plant. The inclusion of it on the original article was from what I felt was a reliable source; however, I can find no further information to back it up and therefore I will adjust my article to these findings.

B.) I do not know that I would want to describe Pulmonary Disease itself for the article is more about the plant itself.

C.) Cowslip: Oftentimes, I have noticed that the use of plant's common names vary through region. The common names that I had chosen to indicate were from a number of different sources titling the Bluebell with such names. I will hope to better clarify this in my revision, but I wlll add here that there is another plant that goes by Lungwort Cowslip and therefore research into any plant species should be done through the scientific name alone.

--Thank you for your comments-- --Massonika 05:47, 25 April 2006 (UTC)