Talk:Nepeta

Uses:

Roughly 50% of cats will be affected by the plant,^[1]

Effects on Cats:

About two thirds of cats are susceptible to catnip.^[2]

Note: The section from uses seems to have been copied to/from Nepeta_cataria

Major_Small (talk) 05:30, 20 March 2011 (UTC)

there is an article from 1988 that describes the catnip response. if anyone has access, it might clarify how nepetalactone influences cats: Herron, Scott (2003). "Catnip, Nepeta cataria, a Morphological Comparison of Mutant and Wild Type Specimens to Gain an Ethnobotanical Perspective". Economic Botany. 57 (1): 135–142. Zqrrld (talk) 01:34, 14 April 2012 (UTC)Zqrrld

The relevant discussion seems to come entirely from this article: Tucker, A. O., and S. S. Tucker. 1988. Catnip and the catnip response. Economic Botany 42:214–226. The first page of that is available here. Sorry, no more time to work on it just now. Nadiatalent (talk) 12:12, 15 April 2012 (UTC)

This article had the nepeta cataria article "dump merged" into this one. The text need to be re-written to fix its flow and style. Jason Quinn (talk) 06:21, 10 June 2011 (UTC)

Nepeta article has cultivar "Walker's Low" as an N. racemosa. I do recall it being in the N.x faassenii series, along with the similarly well-known "Six Hills Giant" and "Kit Kat". Someone well-versed in Nepeta needs to go over the entire article very thoroughly. C.s.auaeginal (talk) 22:59, 27 September 2012 (UTC)c.s.auaeginal, 27 Sept 2012 Thurs.