Giant Hibiscus on the Rocky River and Other Plants
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Guia de Las Plantas de Tehuacán
Plantas de la Reserva de la Biosfera Tehuacan.
I found this guide when I visited 2 years ago and photographed every page. It was basically a handmade stapled guide created by a biologist in charge of this biosphere reserve and is probably impossible to find anywhere else. Hopefully you enjoy it. Feel free to share or copy.
2024-08-13 20:01:38 +0000 UTC View PostOzark Relict Plants
Leitneria is a somewhat mysterious and obscure genus consisting of two species in the US and occurring nowhere else. It was once placed in its own family but today has been taxonomically placed in the Ailanthus family, Simaroubaceae. According to Flora of North America, it has a fossil record dating back to the Oligocene.
I first encountered it in Texas five years ago, and again it was in a small population that was nestled next to the road and generally unappreciated and unnoted...
2024-08-08 15:06:57 +0000 UTC View Post
https://youtu.be/o4B3rO8Usd4
This is a weird one!
Endemic plants of Arkansas and Oklahoma.
2024-08-02 00:03:28 +0000 UTC View PostSand Prairies & The Ancient Mississippi River
Apparently these sand prairies (and the distinct plant communities they create) occur all the way down the river, a relict of the past few million years of this river's depositions and changing paths.
2024-07-31 04:24:23 +0000 UTC View PostThe Invasive Scourge of Teasel
Growing up, this species was everywhere. It's kind of maddening how prevalent it is along the freeways and on-ramps of the Midwest. In its native ecosystem, of course, it behaves entirely different, since it has the antagonistic insect and fungal species that it evolved with present.
2024-07-26 15:46:57 +0000 UTC View PostChert Glades & the Species That Love Them
On a chert Glade in Joplin Missouri we check out an rare species of blazing star, Liatris hirsuta, along with an extremely cold tolerant prickly pear and a very cool succulent species (Phemeranthus calycinus) in the Bitterroot family, Montiaceae.
We also talk about how Chert forms, why it might be occurring here on Carboniferous-age (340 million year old) limestone and how it affects the plant life.
2024-07-24 04:32:32 +0000 UTC View PostNeed Recs for Nashville Glades Arkansas, etc
Hey all,
Rustbelt tour went well. Pittsburgh, Detroit and everywhere along the way. Back in Chicago now and about to take off but headed back through some habitat that's new to me, looking for little crumbs of the vestigial skin of the Earth of these places.
Headed back to the Texas Borderlands via Indiana/Louisville, Arkansas and other places I've spent little time before. Looking specifically for thin-soiled glade habitats and a few specific taxa such as the rare Penstemon deami...
2024-07-23 14:34:40 +0000 UTC View Post
East Austin Succulents
The ad at the beginning of this video is probably one of Al's best
2024-06-28 00:39:51 +0000 UTC View PostInterview with Author Zoe Schlanger, The Light Eaters
Ad-free episode of tomorrow's podcast
2024-06-26 23:28:57 +0000 UTC View PostRockwalls Cacti (Mammillaria andersoniana) and Lycophytes
Tons of good species in this video from Guanajuato state, Mexico.
Mammillaria perezdelarosa ssp andersoniana
Yucca decipiens
Quercus jonesii
Nolina cespitifera
Bouvardia ternifolia (Rubiaceae)
Echeveria agavoides
Echeveria calderoniae
Mammillaria gilensis
Echinofossulocactus ochoterenaus
Dasylirion parryanum
Agave flexispina
2024-06-26 08:05:50 +0000 UTC View PostA Conversation with Botanist Michael Eason
Ad-free version of today's podcast episode
2024-06-25 06:27:52 +0000 UTC View PostDesigning a Logo for a friend, which one?
The stippling really went over board, flattening the whole image. I've gotta tighten these up tomorrow but here's some previews. Which one do you prefer?
2024-06-20 00:47:03 +0000 UTC View Post
Phrynosoma is the Embodiment of Gahd
That's.... That's the Lord ..
2024-06-12 21:03:28 +0000 UTC View Post