Crime Pays But Botany Doesn't

Rock Daisies, Peyote, Sky Islands and Taqueria Palenque

A gentle, sweaty meander through the Southwest in August, ending in a bath in the salsa bar at Taqueria Palenque in Beautiful Mission, Texas.

Southside Chicago & Sonora, Mexico

Kankakee Mallow, Chiggers, Southside Prairies and Railroad Botany... At minute 45:00 starts a long diatribe on Sonoran Sky Islands (recorded in-situ inthe camper of ye Olde shit-box truck) and the wonders of the Legume Family, with multiple appearances by herps such as Black-Tailed Rattlesnakes, a Sonoran Desert Toad (DMT exudate), Ridge-nosed Rattlesnakes and Caesalpinia pulcherrima

Extinct Redwood Forests and Sensitivity Training for Rude Geologists

Geologists laughing at Earthquakes, Coyotes as Redneck Antidotes, Extinct Redwood Forests of Nevada and Oregon, Tony flowers in volcanos, Heat Stroke, Calochortus Lily Bonanza, White Sensitivity, and Rico's Tacos.

Redwood Lilies & Midwest Botany

Long rants about redwood lilies, a dip into Northern California geology as cross-dissected by Interstate 5, pontificating on lunatics of the left and the right, and a finale about Prairie Botany and the encouraged destruction of the American Lawn.

More Milkweed Dungeons in Nevada and Utah

Milkweed Morphology and an exploration of the passive-aggressive liberal "white voice"

One Long Disjointed Rant b/w Milkweeds and Sclerocactus

Convergent Evolution, Carnivory, and the Milkweed from Serpentine Barrens

Real nice and quick banger Intro to Carnivory and the Piney Woods of the North Carolina Acidic Coastal Plain, plus a cameo by the mysterious and elusive Serpentine Milkweed from Northern California Coast Ranges

Death Valley Limestone, Invasive Species, Herbal Enemas

A trip to Death Valley Limestone , an herbal poultice for invasive species long-winded rambling and the longest attempt to exit the podcast so far.

Assaulted by Stinkbells and Obsessed with Monkey Flowers

Stinkbells Lilies, Fritillaria agrestis, the Futility of Life in Modern Civ, Calico Monkeyflowers, etc

Rare Manzanitas & The Best Taqueria in the Salinas Valley

A trip to Pinnacles National Park, confused European tourists, the hemorrhoid of differentiating between two morphologically-identical genera of annual tarweeds, and the best goddamn taqueria in the Salinas Valley (Soledad Brother).

"Superblooms" are relicts & understanding Invasive Species

But for real - how could you not like The Spinners?

Mojave Snow, Laterites, Salvia funerea

A week long jaunt into the Mojave during a freakish weather event and a list of the floristic characters encountered b/w moderated profanity and the joy of being slapped around with Placidium Lichen.

Neonicotinoids, Molecular Phylogeny, Relict Populations

This episode contains rants about the anomaly of working-class republican-ism, molecular phylogenetics, a new population of Funeral Sage, and a relict population of Alaska Cypress

Kick Me Inna Asteraceae

A Very Brief, Low-Brow Approach to the Sunflower Family with frequent cameos by an inopportune Yukele, with frequent digressions into Palo-Endemics, Refugia, Botanical Speciation , Disjunct Populations and Molecular Phylogenetics.