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00:01Let's go down here and check out some of the stuff.

00:04You can see like this, this is a species of croton.

00:06It's in the Poinsettia family, Euphorbyaceae.

00:08Look at the net, the net-like patchwork of roots that holds this together.

00:13Oh, right here.

00:14So these plants stabilize the dunes, and they're also adapted to growing

00:18in what's a really harsh environment, just to grow in sand,

00:21especially when it's hot as hell here.

00:23This would be a beautiful landscape plant in front of a house, man.

00:26Look at this three-carpled ovary. Look at that.

00:29Tell me about the carpal.

00:31A carpal is a female unit of plant reproduction.

00:34Proton is a large genus with a lot of species in it,

00:37and a lot of diversity in Texas especially.

00:39It has three carpals, a trait that indicates it's in the family Euphorbyaceae.

00:44So an ovary can have many carpals.

00:46Now we're out here in late January, which isn't exactly the height of flowering season

00:50in most of the United States.

00:52Let's go look at this, because this is the only thing blooming down here.

00:55But this is South Texas, where even in winter, something's flowering.

00:59Wow!

01:00Oh, my God!

01:01So this is what's going off here.

01:03This is a species of Gallardia.

01:05It's got some really corny, honky name for it.

01:08It's called, like, Indian blanket or something that's stupid and mildly offensive.

01:12Doesn't make any sense.

01:13This is actually a compound flower.

01:14About a hundred tiny flowers in there.

01:16And there's one of them.

01:17What we're doing is we're looking at typical sunflower family morphology

01:22for any faces in the audience who don't think it's important.

01:26We'll tell you why this is important.

01:27A pretty wonderful thing that's going on here with the sunflower family

01:30is they evolved what looks like a single flower, like a sunflower.

01:33It's actually composed of, in the case of this Gallardia,

01:36there's about probably, I don't know, 80 separate individual flowers.

01:40We call them florets.

01:41So that's a single flower right there.

01:44That's a single floret.

01:45The benefit of this is that when an insect comes by to pollinate,

01:49it ends up pollinating 80 flowers at one time instead of just one.

01:52So anyway, that's Gallardia.

01:54But it's a really common native roadside wheat.

01:57This is so nice.

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