CrimePaysButBotanyDoesnt

Boxcar Dispatches to Nobody

A random and unintentional video made whimsically one day in Arkansas, exploring the human urge to write messages and drawings to nobody in particular, in places where many won't see them, and just where the human urge to record and create comes from, and what might motivate it.

Russel Butler was a switchman for the Missouri Pacific Railroad for over 40 years. During this time he wrote his "Dispatches" on the sides of rusty old railcars tens if not hundreds of thousands of times - mess...

Cook County Existentialism inna Modern Day

Starring Al Scorch

"Beetles Daisies", Vipers and Quartz Plains

Texas Monarch Migration

Vampire Cups & Conophytum

Hey guys here's the third of about 18 videos I have left to make, many of them having to be split up in two parts because I just have too much footage and there's too many cool plants to be leaving any out

I would also appreciate your feedback on any typos in the captions or editing mistakes. Due to how long it's been taking to edit these and how much work I have left to do I've been somewhat half-assed in the act of spell checking and proofreading edits. Thanks again for your continue...

Short South African Fynbos Primer

Flypaper Plants

One of South Africa's weirdest plants...

Penguin Vs. Hyrax

No videos for a while

Hello All,
Sorry to say there won't be any videos for a week or two as I'm on the road in South Africa (Thanks to Dan K for sending me here!) and I haven't had time to edit videos much less any time or a decent enough wifi signal to upload a 16 gb video. However, I'm pretty vigilant about uploading to Inaturalist every night so if you have any interest in seeing some of the frak bastards we've been coming across feel free to check it out.

South Africa Fynbos Primer

Accidentally uploaded to "public" status after finishing editing. Still on the road, enjoy!

Late Night at the Mushroom Lab

Badlands National Park & the Long Lost Buckwheat

Fossil Plants, Petrified Wood of Eastern Montana

Northern Utah Botany

In the heart of the fold and thrust belt along the Weber River in Northern Utah we examine a new species in the Chicory Subfamily of the Sunflower Family, Asteraceae that was recently described in 2018. Hiding in plain sight all along, this species is blooming in the 100° F heat of July and covered in all kinds of cool native bees and other insect pollinators. Later in this episode we climb to an elevation of nearly 8,000' to check out a strange and rare member of the poppy family, as well a...

Plants of Yellowstone National Park

Desolation Botany in the Jarbidge Mountains

The Hot Springs Buckwheat

Eriogonum argophyllum is only known from an area the size of a football field, growing on the precipitate deposits of a boiling hot spring in Eastern Nevada.

The Mystery of the Desert Yellowhead

Alpine Plants of the Bighorn Range

Southern Montana Anticlines and Gypsum Deserts

Metasequoia of North Dakota

Fossilized Redwood Forests of Eocene Nevada

The Botany of Flood Basalts

I'm stoked on this one. What an epic landscape. Enjoy.

Ashy Badlands & Desert Mustards

Your feedback on this one appreciated. Good, honest feedback. Be brutal if need be.

Geothermal Botany, Strange Sunflowers, & Hot springs

Clay Lilies, Tarweeds, & Fog Banks

Cycad Fluffers and Ex-situ Conversation

Helping plants bang like no other

A few more flower morphology studies from the sketchbook

Salty Erotica

Meet Sarcobatus, the salty ubiquitous bastard whose range extends from Canada to Mexico. one of the West's most non-descript shrubs gets a lengthy ten minutes devoted to it, along with an appearance by a loggerhead shrike and verbally abusive rants that are sure to upset and irritate an as-yet-unassembled posse of various stiffs. You never knew halophytes could be so cool.

5 minutes of Martin's Rambling

Thought-provoking, to say the least. We here at CPBBD do not necessarily agree with the opinions expressed here so keep any shit-posting comments directed elsewhere and not at me, fucko.