Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Texas Purple Thistle

Texas Purple Thistle

Voting period is over. Please don't add any new votes. Voting period ends on 8 May 2012 at 17:34:53 (UTC)

Original – Texas Purple Thistle or Cirsium horridulum Michaux: a round, spiky, pink flower found in San Antonio, TX during the spring.

Reason

Meets all 8 featured picture criteria

Articles in which this image appears

Cirsium

FP category for this image

Flowers

Creator

Lauraprl

• Support as nominator --v/r - TP 17:34, 29 April 2012 (UTC)
• Support --Tomtomn00 (talk • contributions) 17:40, 29 April 2012 (UTC)
• Weak oppose the present placement of the image in the article does not contribute a lot to the article. I would probably support it if it was the leading image of an article or had a prominent placement other than being in a gallery. Thistles are rather common flowers so it really has to stand out to deserve FP status. For example there are many nice photos of other Cirsium species: 1, . 2. Also, I am dubious about the species: the cirsium article lists Cirsium horridulum as the yellow thistle, but this flower is clearly purple/pink. Is it another one of those flowers that change colours drastically? Purpy Pupple (talk) 20:53, 29 April 2012 (UTC)
• Oppose Depth of field too shallow. Jujutacular (talk) 18:49, 6 May 2012 (UTC)

Not promoted --Dusty777 18:03, 8 May 2012 (UTC)