Talk:Typha × glauca
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[edit]This page has a completely inappropriate 100% American bias, for a plant that is native European in origin. It needs an international perspective, starting with its native origins and natural environment, and rewriting in the relevant language (i.e., UK English spellings and names, where it is native, not American, where it is merely an invasive alien) as per MOS:TIES (which takes precedence over MOS:RETAIN) - MPF (talk) 14:36, 22 October 2024 (UTC)
- Is it such a clearly distinctly UK English topic such that MOS:TIES would be necessary? We are talking about a hybrid, albeit one that occurs naturally, and Typha latifolia definitely has a cosmopolitan native distribution, while Typha angustifolia very possibly does too: "Typha angustifolia [...] historically had a narrower distribution; it was confined to the eastern seaboard based on pollen and herbarium records"[1] Sauzer (talk) 18:30, 22 October 2024 (UTC)
- That reference clearly says only "possibly native to the tidal wetlands of the eastern seaboard"; the evidence for its being native in North America is poor, while it is a universally acknowledged native in Britain (and Europe, where UK spellings are the norm). So yes, Ties does apply - MPF (talk) 20:19, 22 October 2024 (UTC)
- ^ Bansal, Sheel; et al. (2019-06-21). "Typha (Cattail) Invasion in North American Wetlands: Biology, Regional Problems, Impacts, Ecosystem Services, and Management". Wetlands. 39 (4). Springer Science and Business Media LLC: 645–684. doi:10.1007/s13157-019-01174-7. ISSN 0277-5212.