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Nuggets of knowledge we soaked up from @sheriff_wo

Nuggets of knowledge we soaked up from @sheriff_woody_pct on the Botany Road Trip to the Intermountain West:

1. Rare plants tend to grow in clusters with other rare plants.

2. When choosing to except a hitch or not, feel more comfortable if a couple is offering the ride. Couples, generally, don’t murder people.

3. If it looks onionish but doesn’t smell a onionish, don’t eat it. It may kill you.

4. Studying satellite imagery for interesting soil types and rocky outcrops is a great way to hunt for rare plant locations.

5. Look more closely at the tiny plants you step over.

6. Penstemon is the most diverse genus that is endemic to North America!

Part 2 of our 3 part journey featured 12 of them, including this gorgeous King’s Beardtongue (Penstemon kingii) from Utah.

This evening Part 3 takes us to the southeast to meet, among others things, loads of carnivorous plants. Sundews, flytraps, and pitcher plants — oh my!

#botanyroadtrip #botanizing #botanist #nativeplants #rareplants #carnivourousplant #penstemon

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We have 2 winners for our Botany Road Trip! 🎉

🏵 G I V E A W A Y 🏵 @sheriff_woody_pct & @ba

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Join us right here on Sunday 4/10 at 6:30pm PT whe

Join us right here on Sunday 4/10 at 6:30pm PT when @backcountrypress will be LIVE with plant explorer and botanical storyteller Matt Berger @sheriff_woody_pct!

For the last year Matt’s been hitting the trail and the road (hard, mind you) seeking out unusual plants in unusual places.

He’s seen magnificent, fascinating, surprising, weird, grotesque, and even creepy things along his Botany Road Trip zigzagging the U.S.

❓What questions do you have for Matt?

💥 Comment with yours and we’ll be sure to ask him!

Hop on the Live at the 🔔 link above to catch the answers!

#botanyroadtrip #rareplants #botany #botanist @californianativeplantsociety

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