Bristol Mountains Buckwheat Crawl
Added 2025-11-16 08:08:14 +0000 UTCin this video we start off at lower elevations in the Mojave Desert, scoping out smoke bush (Psorothamnus spinosus) then slowly ascend past the 80,000 year old Amboy Crater stopping to check out some halophytes along the way. The video ends at the junction of limestone and igneous rock, where a buckwheat species+genus Eriogonum) grows that is new to science and still lacks a formal scientific name since it haant been described yet. A lot of rare plants and some epic scenery are covered in this episode, exploring a few different landscapes of the Mojave Desert, my old stomping grounds where I first learned to fall in love with plants from extreme climates and environmental conditions.
