• Trans-Pecos Botany with Dr Mike Powell

  • Mar 26 2025
  • Length: 1 hr and 51 mins
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Trans-Pecos Botany with Dr Mike Powell

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  • Dr. Michael Powell is the curator of the Sul Ross Herbarium in Alpine, Texas and a proverbial wizard of West Texas Botany and Plants of the Trans-Pecos. In this episode we discuss
    how the endangered species act influenced the wariness of Texas ranchers and land owners, the current drought that Texas is in, describing new species of plants, the rock-daisies and cliff-dwellers of the Perityle clade (Asteraceae), limestone endemism among Texas plants, how to propagate Texas Madrones, how chromosome-counting was done using immature buds before the advent of PCR, propagating rare native plants of the Trans Pecos, botanizing Mexico in the 1960s and 70s, gypsophile plants, and how a single teacher inspired him to ditch baseball for Botany in the early 1960s.

    Episodes of the Crime Pays But Botany Doesn't podcast are available Ad-Free on the Patreon.
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