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I grew up in the land of the black walnut, Juglans nigra. And if you grew up in the eastern US, then you did too. It has a very large range in east...

  • Added: Aug 12, 2022
  • Length: 03:59
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I grew up in Kentucky where the state flower is goldenrod. The particular species that has that honor is Solidago gigantea. I wonder how it was cho...

  • Added: Sep 28, 2021
  • Length: 05:21
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I like the phrase in Arizona Flora about the Loasa family Loasaceae ; it is “remarkable for the diversity and peculiar structure of the hairs.” And...

  • Added: Sep 28, 2021
  • Length: 05:05
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On this new episode of YBYG, Mike gives you the buzz on Hornet Nests in trees and the ground! Plus your 'Buzzy' phone calls!!

  • Added: Jul 29, 2021
  • Length: 54:59
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I’m telling you, late summer and fall are great times to get out into the hills, especially if you want to find interesting plants. While you’re ou...

  • Added: Sep 27, 2020
  • Length: 05:02
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Jackass clover is Wislizenia refracta and the botanical name of clammy weed is Polanisia dodecandra. They are both in the Cleome family Cleomaceae....

  • Added: Sep 21, 2020
  • Length: 04:36
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You know you haven’t been hiking or botanizing out in the desert or grassland enough when you look to the roadsides for interesting plants, but I’l...

  • Added: Sep 10, 2020
  • Length: 05:13
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Hummingbird trumpet has had quite a few botanical names and I’m still not sure that I got the current botanical right in this episode. I called it ...

  • Added: Sep 02, 2020
  • Length: 05:01
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At my age I should probably being thinking more of getting rid of clutter rather than adding to it. I tell our daughters that some day they can hav...

  • Added: Aug 26, 2020
  • Length: 05:17
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Many years ago when I was running a nursery in Tucson, Arizona I was invited by a landscape architecture firm to supply the all plants for a landsc...

  • Added: Aug 18, 2020
  • Length: 04:48
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The scientific name for our gopher snake (or gophersnake. I’ve seen it written both ways) is Pituophis catenifer. The genus name looks like a combi...

  • Added: Aug 12, 2020
  • Length: 05:30
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Since producing this episode of Growing Native we have encountered Jatropha macrorhiza a couple more times. A recent sighting was over near the New...

  • Added: Aug 08, 2020
  • Length: 05:17
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Raspberries are in the rose family, Rosaceae, the genus Rubus and with six species in Arizona. Five are native species and one introduced. Rubus id...

  • Added: Jul 29, 2020
  • Length: 05:17
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Phemeranthus aurantiacus, the former Talinum aurantiacum, is now in Talinaceae, the flameflower family, “a family of two genera and 28 species.” Th...

  • Added: Jul 25, 2020
  • Length: 04:45
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From our secure, undisclosed Mojave Desert radio studio, tonight we bring you our 100th episode, with strange tales of the Amboy Ghost Lights and a...

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  • Added: Jul 17, 2020
  • Length: 28:00
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San Miguelito (Antigonon leptopus) is quite the Mexican native plant. I read that it’s found in habitat not only in Sonora and Chihuahua and southw...

  • Added: Jul 16, 2020
  • Length: 05:19
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I think that the common name of orange sneezeweed may be a bit misleading. The flowers we saw and photographed were more on the yellow side, but th...

  • Added: Jul 09, 2020
  • Length: 05:18
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The Bighorn Fire in the Catalina Mountains near Tucson, AZ. started on June 5th of 2020 and as I sit and write this a few weeks later on June 30th ...

  • Added: Jul 01, 2020
  • Length: 05:16
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The miller moths that showed up at our little homestead are the adult of the army cutworm (Euxoa auxiliaris) and they migrate from lower areas and ...

  • Added: Jun 23, 2020
  • Length: 05:26
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Isn’t it wonderful to live in a region where clouds and humidity and rain are so celebrated? You can identify the natives and converted natives as ...

  • Added: Jun 17, 2020
  • Length: 05:05
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Every time I pull a reference book or field guide off the shelf to read about a recently seen insect I seem to run across a quote by the famous ent...

  • Added: Jun 11, 2020
  • Length: 05:19
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These day trips of ours into the hills are so renewing. The particular canyon that I talking about is very close to our home and within 30 or 40 mi...

  • Added: Jun 08, 2020
  • Length: 05:13
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The desert bighorn is found in the arid regions of the western and southwestern US and across the border in Mexico. Its scientific name is Ovis can...

  • Added: May 22, 2020
  • Length: 05:08
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Searching our pantry and chest freezer has been quite an adventure. We’ve even found some unlabeled items in the freezer. “What do you suppose that...

  • Added: May 18, 2020
  • Length: 05:22
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We have always tried to get out to hike and picnic in wild places around us here in Cochise County, Arizona. I still go out by myself to botanize a...

  • Added: May 18, 2020
  • Length: 05:02