Monocot Taxonomic Clusterf*ck
In this episode we talk with Chris Pires, Chief Science Officer at the New York Botanic Garden, about the taxonomic clusterf*ck that is the order Asparagales - the order of the Iris Family, the Orchid...
2 Sep 20212h
Deconstructing Taxonomy
Today's episode is inspired by the bRaVE individuals (all of us) who participated in the massive back-and-forth online shitposting last week regarding the inherent colonialism of using the binomial na...
18 Aug 20211h 11min
Intro to the Rise of Flowering Plants
In this episode we speak with Peter Raven, former director of the Missouri Botanical Garden, about our current understanding of the rise of angiosperms and what the floristic landscape may have looked...
31 Jul 20211h 16min
Wyoming Rare Plants with Walt Fertig
A criminally underrated state for rare plants and plant ecology, Wyoming has a number of rare taxa and bizarre habitats. In this episode we talk with a botanist who spent twenty years in the state doc...
18 Jul 20212h 14min
Yellowstone Botany & Wyoming Rare Plants
Plants that grow on sinter (silica) and travertine (calcium carbonate) deposits of hot springs, a really bizarre central Wyoming endemic known from only two locations (Yermo xanthocephalus) whose clo...
13 Jul 20211h 42min
Hiking Through The Great Basin w/ Matt Berger
In this episode we have an hour long conversation with Matt Berger about a loop "trail" (there actually was no trail save for that created by wild horses) created through the mountain ranges of the Gr...
5 Jul 20211h 45min
Buckwheats and Bail Bonds
This episode begins with a 56 minute rant concerning the crime spree caused by the meeting of the Eriogonum Society in Elko, Nevada, followed by rants on the silica "sinter" deposits occurring through...
30 Jun 20211h 42min
The Nitty Gritty of DNA sequencing to understand Plant Evolution
In this episode we speak with Bruce Baldwin about sequencing the DNA of plants to understand how closely we're distantly related they are and how they have evolved. At least an initial understanding, ...
22 Jun 20212h 20min
