Trans-Pecos Botany with Dr Mike Powell
Added 2025-03-21 18:33:10 +0000 UTCMike Powell is curator of the Sul Ross Herbarium in Texas and has spent 60 years studying the plants of the region. In this conversation we talk about describing new species, gypsum endemics in the Chihuahua Desert, Chromosome counting, Sky Islands on the Chisos and Davis Mountains, Increasing Droughts, the importance of herbaria, and the new species discovered in Big Bend National Park, Ovicula biradiata
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Back to back West Texas banger episodes! I actually JUST reached out to Dr. Powell and his insight into plant propagation has been very helpful for my own foray into my native garden and advocating for the unique plants that West Texas has to offer. Hope to meet him and check out the herbarium soon! I love the idea of demonstration gardens. There needs to be more of them to show people that what they see out in Big Bend, the Davis Mountains or the other two national parks in this region can be had right in their own backyard. And just how important all these plants are to the ecology of the region. Love it!
Christopher Stickney
2025-03-21 21:57:44 +0000 UTC
