Plants That Grow on Badlands & Petrified Forests of West Texas

Another beast of a video at 45 min long, but we got it all in this one - bivalve fossils, ammonite fossils, petrified wood, cryptic cacti , badlands, and federally listed endangered plants. Oreocarya (Cryptantha) crassipes is a wooly little member of the borage family that is somehow able to grow on the barren shake badlands of West Texas near the Mexican Border. #Baculites is a genus of ammonite that lived in the area back when it was underwater, 80 million years prior. Why are members of the Mustard Family, Buckwheat Family and Borage Family so successful in deserts? This question and many others get examined in this episode of Crime Pays But Botany Doesn't. Your contributions support this content. It sounds clichéd, but it's true. Whether it's travel expenses, vehicle repair, or medical costs for urushiol poisoning (or rockfalls, beestings, hand slices, toxic sap, etc), your financial support allows this content to continue so the beauty of Earth's flora can be made accessible to the rest of us in the degenerate public. At a time when so much is disappearing beneath the human footprint, CPBBD is willing to do whatever it takes to document these plant species and the ecological communities they are a part of before they're gone for good. Plants make people feel good. Plants quell homicidal (and suicidal!) thoughts. To support Crime Pays But Botany Doesn't, consider donating a few bucks to the venmo account "societyishell" or the PayPal account email [email protected]... Or consider becoming a patreon supporter @ :   / crimepaysbutbotanydoesnt   Buy some CPBBD merch (shirts, hats, hoodies n' what the shit) available for sale at : https://www.bonfire.com/store/crime-p... To purchase stickers, venmo twelve bucks to "societyishell" and leave your address in the comments. Plants ID questions or reading list suggestions can be sent to [email protected] Thanks, GFY.