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The result was delete. ✗plicit 00:13, 29 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]

List of early spring flowers[edit]

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List of early summer flowers and Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of late spring flowers previously deleted. Subjective, undefinable, unhelpful, unsourced, listified prior-cat stub since 2007. Hyperik ⌜talk⌟ 15:42, 21 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Delete, "early spring" is completely subjective, meaning this list is impossible to discern by design. Ten Pound Hammer • ^{(What did I screw up now?)} 15:47, 21 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Lists-related deletion discussions. Shellwood (talk) 15:54, 21 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Delete This works for a Devonshire gardening manual, not an international encyclopedia. Subjective timeframe and impossible to globalize. --Elmidae (talk · contribs) 16:15, 21 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Comment: the analogy with List of early summer flowers and even late spring flowers is a bit misleading. There is a well-established concept in ecology, the "spring window", referring to the time between when it gets warm enough for plants to do stuff, and before the main vegetation gets its leaves and shades out everything underneath. This is the ecological niche occupied by the early spring flowering plants, so it would be possible to define this list in a way that can be supported by proper sources. The spring window does, of course happen at a different time of year in different places, and not everywhere has deciduous vegetation, but it's a concept that's relevant across a large chunk of the globe. I'm not sure the current list is global enough, or focused enough, to merit keeping, but were it aligned to a well-described ecological phenomenon, it could be. If you want to look into this, beware, google searches are hard to design; there's so much about window-boxes for spring flowers and spring into beauty in your windows, etc., that it's quite hard to get the ecological stuff. I recommend something like 'ecology "spring window"', but good luck! Elemimele (talk) 22:50, 21 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]
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