Hey Ashitaka, i am a teacher in the area that is looking to develop a list of the 100 most common plants of the wasatch front. I'm trying to develop something similar to birdwatching but for plants. Native plants are not my strong suit, and I was wondering if you could take a look at my list and give me some feedback?

Super fascinating chats! Here in NZ we have two semi parasitic plants (Exocarpus bidwillii of Santalaceae - super weird looking leafless, alpine plant and the other is Mida salicifolia, a tree that was shifted from Santalaceae to Nanodeaceae but still Santalales). Always cool to see such different biodiversity in different areas and then have the odd related taxon pop up here and there, biogeographical explanations of some of these links are a total mystery to me sometimes 😂

Wow somewhere that has more weeds than New Zealand. Are there goats there? I remember they were a big problem on the big Island when I went there 20 years ago.

I remember a Botanist said in a talk it was great to be interested in plants because you get to have a rest a lot as you see an interesting plant every few feet. Really great to find another channal that has videos focusing on Botany on KZbin . Hawaii is an amazing place.

Very depressing to see Koster's Curse and so much palmgrass way up there. The small birds like waxbills love to walk across the thin stalks of the palmgrass and eat the seeds at the end. It's humorous to see the bulbuls hanging around closeby trying to figure out how they do that. Where I live in the back of Manoa we get at least 1/10th of an inch of rain at least 2/3rd of the days of the year. Quite often much more. Where Lyon Arboretum is located on the other side of the valley is the second wettest spot on the island. There's a very big long landslide on one of the slopes behind my house. I heard it happen around 5am. Lots of crunching trees.

Is it also called the Rocky mountain fur? Or is that a different tree?

Thank you so much for the video

Never assume that it can't be saved. Always attempt CPR my friend just avoid the sap.

Nice little vernal pool that made.

When I was 18, long long ago, my friend and I ran this whole trail barefoot. There were no rope assists then. I remember scrambling and clawing to get up to the lookout at the end. Strawberry guava was our only refreshment on the way.

Thanks for the video, I really appreciate someone showing the flora from these remote places. Nice to see more natives in this one waiting already for the next part 👍👍

Horseweed--so that's what that plant was that grew straight up out of one of my pots a couple of years ago. Mystery solved. Google lens wasn't around back then. What kind of economic benefit would come from planting Australian trees? At what point are people going to learn?

Dude....... relax its called God......... And to be exact its called an act of God

Really chool video man, nice to see some island species, let's hope you find more natives later on the trip.

Thanks for this video. The weeds I'm constantly having to deal with on my property at the back of Manoa Valley are haole koa, maile pilau, sleeping grass, Kostor's Curse, juniper berry, asparagus grass, silky oak, wedelia, albizia, macaranga, palm grass, formosan koa, and probably some others that don't come to mind at the moment. There are no naturally growing endemic species of anything (flora or fauna) on my property that I am aware of, but I've been planting a lot of endemic plants, mostly due to the efforts of Hui Ku Maoli Ola making endemic plants available. I've let the wedelia grow because it makes a good ground cover smothering out a lot of the other weeds and has nice deep green leaves and yellow flowers. It was a somewhat recent invader but grows very quickly. I use a lot of monstera to drown out weeds, too. I've got a coral tree that's in the same family as the wiliwili, I believe, and it gets hit with the gall wasp regularly about once a year, but survives fine, due to the other wasp, no doubt. I'm at the 500ft. level, so I suppose that has a lot to do with it surviving the first gall wasp infestations.

Thank you for the very informative video. Lamington National Park is a great place to explore biodiversity. There are many strange plants and animals. I like the Lamington Spiny Crayfish. (Euastacus sulcatus) 🦞

Nice video, are you a fan of Mononoke hime?

I tried to grow Rudbeckia occidentalis last year but it died 😢-- something ate it completely, not sure maybe a squirrel 🤷? I still have aspirations though, I'm going to try it again in another spot. I ended up buying a great seep monkeyflower on sale last fall for very cheap at a local nursery -- I was very impressed with how it kept its foliage all winter, and had no problems growing in very poorly draining heavy clay. It's been gone for a while for me since the end of June, but it made a lot of seeds so I don't know if I can grow it as an annual maybe or if has gone dormant in the summer (looks pretty dead) -- it was very lovely while it lasted.

How can I take this cotton seed?

Made me think of a baked crust once I saw the hole appear in the first section where it looked hollow-ish underneath If that's correct, I can imagine it would be fairly difficult for any seeds to succeed unless they landed in a crack along the crust

what species?

Geoguessr player here, this is helpful thanks. Several useful identification tricks for distinction and region guessing

Very interesting plantlife. Keep them coming!

Wow! The one time I went to Utah I just remember it as hot and dusty and a million degrees, but I guess I was just visiting the wrong place (or maybe at the wrong time of the year!) This is beautiful, thanks for taking us along on your walk!

I managed to get a small specimen of the Purshia Stansburiana "Stansbury Cliffrose" and also a cutting. So far, they are looking nice. They were in bloom at the Grand Canyon (N Rim) on July 7th and looked really pretty. The pollinators were all over the blooms. Question: What is a powerhouse plant of the West when it comes to feeding the birds? One of the plants I noticed on the way back to Arkansas was a bush with plenty of berries in Mesa Verde National Park. The stems on the shrub were whiteish, and the berries reminded me a little of crabapples. Any idea what that might have been?

Hello, I was wondering if you are positive that the Doug fir is on the right at :38? The bark looks so smooth.

Good stuff, period. Having several ways to identify the trees is a great way to confirm accuracy.

Thanks for the video. I just got back from the Coral Pink Sand Dunes, and I was wandering what some of those plants were out there. Also, just before getting to the dunes, I spotted my first Jack Rabbit. That was pretty rad.

These lil dudes are so cute

Twinberry honeysuckle is such a great shrub. Such a long bloom time, my bumblebees love it, it tolerates my heavy, poorly draining clay... Cool to see that it grows at higher elevations too! :)

This plant even grows at the base of trees in parking strips sometimes. Good winter salad green. I mean not the ones in the parking strip but you can grow this really easily in your backyard -- it only needs to be seasonally wet. Great video, thanks!

The astragalus looks like a. cibarius -- that species is actually pretty easy to identify, as it is the only species along the northern wasatch front to have the copious black calyx hairs of a. cibarius.

Thanks for sharing, I hope youre feeling much better and recovered!

Whoa!

I ❤ this camera

Hey I appreciate the video, i'm going soon to stay with family that live by a bunch of douglas fir and i'm trying to learn so i can make some douglas fir tea, cheers!

that's cool it's native. i'm going to plant one and prune it into tree form

Wtf so cool! I’m in the desert and just started getting super obsessed with the wild moss that grows in the shady corner of my yard!!! Anytime I’ve attempted to propagate, it does 🥺🥺🥺 but I’m hoping I’ll get it one day. Is this “desert moss” actually in the desert?!? Loool

I’m sorry but this video was way to complex for my thinking not very helpfull not to be rude

Thank you, I was about to buy this plant for my garden, now I’ll find something else

Wow, I don't really know what this channel is supposed to be about (I asume botany) but I dig the vibe of your videos. Something about the simple and natural narration of yours paired with the passion that I sense from your voice and with the beautiful imagery makes this experience quite relaxing. Just a man sharing what he loves. I'm intrigued

Thanks for the reeducation on the plants of the Kaiparowitz . I’ve been looking for the name of the cordylanthus wrightii you identified for me. The shepherdia rotundifolia is a favorite native shrub. It’s beautiful when growing in ideal conditions. It is edible to livestock and is utilized in winter when snow covers other forages. I have heard it has high nutrient value as well. I believe you are on Four Mile bench, a place I know well. It was seriously over grazed by both sheep and cattle and has very few water sources. The farther from the water the more grasses and herbaceous plants you will find.

Thanks for the clip on p j forests. It seems the place you are at has a good diverse understory but i see a lot of young trees encroaching. In a lot of the old growth pj forests the understory has been almost eliminated by the alleotrophic effects.

Than you for sharing this, I hope you get a lot more attention!

This is great

I live in a juniper/pinyon forest in New Mexico at 7100'. I'm curious as to how old the trees are around me. I know it must take a lot of time for the junipers to mature.

glad you moved past that stupid "develop immunity to poison ivy" idea

Love the vids as a fellow N Utah based botany enthusiast. Real quick tho I think the mystery Asteraceae at the beginning of the vid is a Heterotheca species (traditionally the common Utah Heterotheca have been called H. villosa, but a recent publication split most of the Utah H. villosa into 2 species: H. utahensis and H. zionensis. They are hard for me to distinguish and I do wonder if one of these new names should not be synonymized with the other or if it would not just be better to follow Welsh and keep calling them H. villosa.) So yeah probably a Heterotheca sp. but the taxonomy around it has been in flux so it is hard for me to give it a species name with confidence.

cool AF

Do you know if Agastache urticafolia is growable in a garden around sea level? Or do you think it needs high elevation? I really wanted something native in the mint family for my pollinator garden and I have a plant of it now, but I'm worried it will rot over the winter and or get too heat blasted in the summer. Hoping it survives , we shall see...🤞🤞I tried to give it a well drained position. Very helpful to see its habitat. Lots of people grow foeniculum in gardens, but this one is closer to my region, being the one out west (aside from Agastache occidentalis but I can't seem to find any seeds or plants of that species).