Talk:List of air-filtering plants

sources

This is the source for both this and the NASA Clean Air Study articles. If anyone feels like citing them properly (and possibly merging the two, since neither article is very long nor contains information not germane to the other), go for it. Personally, I'm too lazy at the moment. - Severinus 18:46, 28 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Hmm, yes, much better than what we are citing now (on either page). Kingdon 01:53, 10 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

This last "citation needed" at the end of the list could be: Top Houseplants for Improving Indoor Air Quality. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Fgenest (talk • contribs) 02:20, 26 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Source nr. 9 is not available. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2.243.212.51 (talk) 04:04, 24 August 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Title

The entire citing for the category of benzene citation: ^ a b c d Plants "Clean" Air Inside Our Homes (kilde NASA) is incorrect. There is no scientific evidence stated there nor are some of the plants dictated to do certain tasks as correctly associated with the article (i.e. says golden pathos filters benzene and the citation used doesn't even support the evidence.) Be very weary of this chart. It is not necessarily interpreted correctly from the study. Please consult the cited studies for correct information.

merging

I noticed a lot of the listed plants are pretty much the same ones, with just different names (often either only subspecies or bred hybrids). I wonder if a plant person wwould like to weed these out a bit? I was also surprised not to see Aloe vera in the list. 217.166.94.1 (talk) 08:29, 24 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

symbols

What do the symbols N, W, and X in the table refer to? Huhnra (talk) 00:45, 27 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Toxicity and noxiousness

A number of these plants are poisonous, and often also attractive to children and pets. In addition, certain plants on the list are considered noxious pests in some locations - notably English Ivy, which is now tagged in Oregon as it is destroying the urban woodlands and turning them into 'ivy deserts'. As such, I would like to add a column, or recommend that one more column be added, with symbols that identify those plants that should not be in homes with children or pets, or should not be planted outdoors in some locations. Is this OK to do? --Gar37bic (talk) 15:45, 23 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, be WP:Bold! If it's wrong it'll be fixed. I am going to refer to this list now in filling my house with what's good for me. Any extra info on this article would be appreciated and I'm sure many people would benefit from expanding/popularizing this. 76.10.164.191 (talk) 22:34, 23 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I support this idea. I have added an extra column for poisonous or not — Preceding unsigned comment added by 66.66.132.42 (talk) 19:28, 6 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]