Rare Plants & Habitat Conservation 

Your love of plants has created me my love of plants. Dude, keep up the great work. Your presentation style makes me understand why you love this stuff so much, rather than just presenting boring facts and annoying observations without any value. You rock!

It's fabulous in the winter; I can imagine how special it is in the spring, summer, and autumn!

This is a very awesome video! I loved how you talked about plant/land conservation. We are losing beautiful landscapes all around us. It is tragic.

Makes me think of Rachael Carson’s book Silent Spring.we need to value “ wild places”.

That dark mushroom could be a type of Wax Cap or Hygrocybe. Some of the species fruit late season and can turn black after exposure to freezing temperatures. Great Vid! Keep exploring!

Thank you Matt for your RU-vid channel and your podcasts. I work in the trades but through the education you give it has helped to convinced me to switch career paths. There is so much that can be done to help conserve and help our plant biodiversity. You've been the catalyst to my new found love for plants.

Lovely upload: please keep them coming! I hope you don’t ‘dry up’ with ideas for new videos! In terms of situations that can’t be avoided, I suppose canvassing door-to-door to educate people about what native plants they should have in their gardens would be good. I definitely know that canvassing isn’t for everyone, however there are always those ‘bubbly people-person’ types that seem to not be fazed by an idea like that! On a more ‘extreme’ note, there is the idea of ‘wild lawns’ (not mowing your lawn and letting it go wild), however that might be more difficult to pitch because people might be embarrassed about how different their lawn looks compared to their neighbours’. I am a bit worried about development in southern Appalachia because I kinda understand the biodiversity there. I suppose it ‘all’ has to do with overpopulation. Here in Toronto and area we have a major problem with Phragmites and Dog-Strangling Vine infestation and I am and have and will take it upon myself to remove as much of those disgusting invasive plants as I can. It’s so bad here that in the city, the only native plants left are Poison Ivy and Virginia Creeper. Sometimes you can spot Baneberry, Jack In the Pulpit, and Riverbank Grape. On rare occasions there is Wild Cucumber, Wild Strawberry, and on the rarest occasion there is Wintergreen. #easternnorthamerica #floraofeasternnorthamerica #habitatconservation #habitatrestoration #invasiveplantremoval #invasivespecies . P.S: I was slightly angered by the Rhododendron, because it reminds me of the infestation in the UK!

That fungi with the dark, semi-spherical shape and slender stipe is very likely Tolypocladium, which is a fungal parasite of other fungus. Family Ophiocordycipitaceae.

Wow! Thank you so much for the video, Sir! I just enjoyed it, it was so calming and informative; wow, what a joy! I have always enjoyed the Cryptogams and it is very sad that the plants are not conserved! I hope most dearly that the land is saved somehow and with it all those beautiful plants! I appreciate your efforts and once again like to thank you, especially for mentioning the binomials on the screen, it was really helpful! Please keep making more videos like this! All the best!

Amen, brother! Amen!

I think that's some sort of Jelly Club at 7:23 (arborist from Indiana here, not an expert in fungi).

Indeed habitat loss is a real tragedy. Seen enough of it around here to make me disheartened. About the only thing that i could do, as there were no organizations that existed to save or protect plants, was to do rescues if I had the opportunity. Even then there was little knowledge available on being able to grow them successfully. That is one reason why I have come to the conclusion that the development of cultivation knowledge of natives is crucial in their long term protection. Such knowledge allows for short term rescue as comparable habitats are either located or developed in which to place them under long term protection. Also there are many species that have become endangered because they are viewed as undesirable plants, such as native thistles, and while not protected face being discarded into rarity or extinction. As long as government and people fail to accept the responsibility for CARING for the earth and the blessing of its diversity of forms of life we push forward towards our own fate of scarcity! Perhaps karma knows best?

Awesome walk, thanks for the tour of a great little spot. Is that valley under current threat? Is there development nearby?

Hard to find wild paw paws too

the second liverwort might've been a conocephalum?

8:29 it is a herbivorous scavenger.

In our neck of the woods we have TVA protected lands...for now.

is it a good idea to build around rare plants?

It makes me so upset that people just destroy all these areas for what....A new house, more crappy places to shop. It is beyond sad.

can rhododendrons grow in to trees?

how cold was it?

Why is sustainable considered as rare plant?

Habitat security is a very detailed topic that necessitates cognizance. A major force that has, through federal military tactics, implanted and manipulated ecology, zoology and botany for political purposes (including Cannabis species and control thereof) is the Sindh Police Force of Pakistan. Implemention of military strategies, including rape torture and theft, is common. This is noted here because they use plants and botany as bait for murderous coercion, manipulation, personal gain... all through satellite and stellar monitoring. Yes, the news is correct about Pakistan being, 'rapey' including towards children. This is directly part of that. One of their military nodes sits in Rosenberg, Texas, United States. There is a set of three homes. Below are their addresses: 7510 Summer Night Ln., Rosenberg, Texas, United States of America 77469 7514 Summer Night Ln., Rosenberg, Texas, United States of America 77469 7518 Summer Night Ln., Rosenberg, Texas, United States of America 7746 If you care about plants, you'll stop these devils. 👍

You’re incorrect about the common naming of Goodyera. It’s called rattlesnake plantain because the leaves look like the skin of a rattlesnake.