A Blazing Star Prairie of the Mind (Western Pennsylvania)

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  • @youtubename8080
    @youtubename8080 4 місяці тому +96

    Man don’t ever stop posting these. I appreciate extensively how willing you are to do all of this traveling and bringing us along with ya. Hopefully we can all figure out how to make this as financially viable for you as possible. You’re the sole person filling this niche. Keep it up

  • @ginavaleriano9894
    @ginavaleriano9894 4 місяці тому +11

    Thanks!

  • @freesov
    @freesov 4 місяці тому +13

    speaking of informational kiosks, the wild mile floating restoration project on the chicago river has a sign now that gives this channel a shout out

  • @i-love-comountains3850
    @i-love-comountains3850 4 місяці тому +7

    I feel like I'm gonna effin SNAP lately. Thank you for uploading videos that keep the selficidal rage at bay.

    • @Hemigoblin
      @Hemigoblin 4 місяці тому +1

      Try calling the number on his hand! I dunno if it's still live, but I've always found messing with scammers to be pretty therapeutic. Harassing cold-texting realtors is also fun.

  • @virginiagerardi2056
    @virginiagerardi2056 4 місяці тому +5

    I appreciate a little east coast ramble. So many natives, so little time.

  • @FordFlatSix
    @FordFlatSix 4 місяці тому +42

    "It has A smell; it does NOT smell."

    • @randallcarpenter5313
      @randallcarpenter5313 4 місяці тому +3

      No, it has an odor.

    • @lairdhaynes1986
      @lairdhaynes1986 4 місяці тому +5

      It's odoriferous to my olfactory sense

    • @NatisParker
      @NatisParker 4 місяці тому +3

      "Nice lunch money. Itd be a shame to turn you upside down and comedically shake it out of your pockets"

    • @jaredknapp8886
      @jaredknapp8886 4 місяці тому +1

      Thing my girlfriend said about me made it into the video...

    • @mechaslugzilla
      @mechaslugzilla 4 місяці тому

      It has a smell, but not a smelly smell that smells smelly.

  • @christianhunt7382
    @christianhunt7382 4 місяці тому +7

    this is close enough to me, and I've waited for at least two years to see it. i know our flowers aren't as cool as the rest of the world, but they're still important to the ecosystems that thrive around them. thanks Tony!

  • @thatone3598
    @thatone3598 4 місяці тому +3

    Long time Canadian watcher here and I'm really happy to finally see an ecosystem with species I recognize. We don't have enough nice native prairies/meadows these days. Also as a botanist by trade, hearing "I appreciate them but... couldn't tell ya, didn't look, don't care" in relation to Solidago was so validating lmao. If you ever put that on a shirt, I'll be first in line for it

  • @ThScarletPimpernel
    @ThScarletPimpernel 4 місяці тому +34

    The cult of the lawn! Everyone managing their “drug dependent rug” along with all their lollypop trees and poodle shrubs. Thanks for showing us the edge of the prairies range..

  • @AT-27182
    @AT-27182 4 місяці тому +5

    Thank you Tony for another enjoyable and educational video.
    Best wishes.

  • @shawnfromportland
    @shawnfromportland 4 місяці тому +26

    PA, right next door to me! I've got 26 acres of woods and pasture and beaver pond in Central New York, you are more than welcome to come stay and educate me about the plants. I'll give you a whole cabin to stay in!

  • @mistaecco
    @mistaecco 4 місяці тому +17

    Ahhh, i wish I'd known you were gonna be in PGH! Glad to see a spotlight on my region through your eyes!

    • @brandonlavan2825
      @brandonlavan2825 4 місяці тому +6

      Same I live 2 hrs north of Pitt would have loved to meet him!

    • @bmilla35
      @bmilla35 4 місяці тому +2

      Not a video passes where I don’t think, “Man, I wish he would do this around Pitt” at least 10 times. It would obviously be ten times cooler if he would walk around our 50 acres in Armstrong county

  • @Ava-JP
    @Ava-JP 4 місяці тому +3

    i live in pittsburgh and and i am taking so many notes for next years garden

  • @PingMe23
    @PingMe23 4 місяці тому +4

    Thanks for coming up to PA Tony. I like our native Ilex Verticillata - the Winterberry. I planeted a lot of those in my backyard. A nice bush through the year, beautiful red berries through the winter. Looks great and the birds go for the berries in late winter. They're normally a wetland bush, but they do pretty well in a garden. Dioecious, so they got male and female plants. You need em both. Hope you find us interesting here! GFY!

  • @chrisszumigala7939
    @chrisszumigala7939 4 місяці тому +4

    Joey you have got to make your way up to Presque Isle on the shore of Lake Erie and see all that unique ecosystem has to offer! Holler if you make it over this way and we can show you around!
    I'll even wear my Department of Unauthorized Forestry t-shirt!

  • @gloriacardenas2056
    @gloriacardenas2056 4 місяці тому +5

    Me gusta mucho la vegetación o la naturaleza sus flores don hermosas.

  • @Ashleybmakingvideos
    @Ashleybmakingvideos 4 місяці тому +14

    I will be saving that number for when boredom strikes. Thank you

  • @patrickdobbels2342
    @patrickdobbels2342 4 місяці тому +2

    I'm learning more every time.

  • @TheFalseProdigy
    @TheFalseProdigy 4 місяці тому +2

    Bring a Pennsylvania native, I absolutely love this video! I’ve been taking notes on what you find so I can nab some seeds and plant em next spring. I already found a nursery nearby that grows rattlesnake master, Joe pye weed, and some eastern mountain mint that I took home

  • @katiekane5247
    @katiekane5247 4 місяці тому +8

    The butterflies used to pull the Joe-Pye over from their combined weight just 25 years ago. Mostly hollow inside that big stem but will send up secondary blooms at the leaf axils. Watched a Hummingbird moth today, cool things. That Scutellaria comes easy from seed. So many similars here in north Georgia.

  • @alien6091
    @alien6091 4 місяці тому +2

    Such pretty plants! Thank you for sharing :D

  • @Brassroses
    @Brassroses 4 місяці тому +4

    Monarda flowers are delicious, they have a sweet, light, perfume-y taste with a hint of minty freshness

  • @reggaespiritdance
    @reggaespiritdance 4 місяці тому +2

    Always a pleasure to watch

  • @reptilianmatthewconley6363
    @reptilianmatthewconley6363 4 місяці тому +4

    Never expected you to come out my way, i live about 20 minutes from here! Saw a baby eastern Massasauga rattlesnake there nearly two years ago, it was in the trail. Would have loved to run into you there, I've loved youre videos for years now.

  • @thegodofhellfire
    @thegodofhellfire 4 місяці тому +2

    So nice to finally see some plants I'm use to seeing here on the east coast in your videos

  • @Murdant
    @Murdant 4 місяці тому +4

    I know that xeric/desert environments are Joey's thing, but I love the eastern US botany videos. Now get down here to the Tennessee cedar glades and barrens which are the best of both worlds!

  • @patterguitsit7124
    @patterguitsit7124 4 місяці тому +5

    Loving these northern region videos! Thanks

  • @allisonorourke9192
    @allisonorourke9192 4 місяці тому +2

    Yes! East Coast video! Please come to Westchester County, NY! Plenty of areas to botanize 👊🏻

    • @Mr.A_nyc
      @Mr.A_nyc 4 місяці тому

      Yeah, very lush in Westchester. The whole nyc area would be interesting.

  • @janinesnyder8250
    @janinesnyder8250 4 місяці тому +3

    Good episode. Thanks!

  • @RiRi9760
    @RiRi9760 4 місяці тому +5

    gotta come up to Wis-can-sin, there's some absolutely incredible prairies, especially in the southwest and central part of the state. 🤗😎 just missed the prairie blazing star, but now solidago, gentian, various aster are peeking out

    • @danielmarmer679
      @danielmarmer679 4 місяці тому +1

      Chiwaukee Prairie right north of the state line on the lake. You can take the Metra UP North train.

    • @errOHneoS
      @errOHneoS 4 місяці тому +1

      Even the cities in southcentral are jumping in on the prairie shindig. You'll see restoration sites all along the on-ramps up I-90.

  • @jean-lucalexander4719
    @jean-lucalexander4719 4 місяці тому +1

    Hey, Joey. I got a question for ya. I know that typically determining what a plant is often comes down to examining it's flower. Especially when separating one plant from another in the same family. But what about plants like Figs?

  • @christinebainbridge2354
    @christinebainbridge2354 4 місяці тому +5

    Woo! Make sure you check yourself thoroughly for ticks! They get into all kinds of sneaky places and cause a whole bunch of diseases. Lyme is big in Western PA.

  • @NamelessZebra
    @NamelessZebra 4 місяці тому

    Absolutely love Jennings Prairie! Sad that I missed ya in Pittsburgh, the show dates conflicted with fieldwork. Hope you come back around to western PA sometime!

  • @SouthwestOhioNatives
    @SouthwestOhioNatives 4 місяці тому +1

    Thanks for covering the midwest! We need this content the most

  • @The_Crucible714
    @The_Crucible714 4 місяці тому +2

    Chasing butterflies with my cousins on my grandparent’s dairy farm in PA is a core childhood memory. The smell of meadows like these on a warm summer day… it’s like a natural xanny!

  • @ty-c93
    @ty-c93 4 місяці тому +1

    Ohioan here, glad the state didn't disappoint too much haha. It has its moments, for sure. As always, enjoying the knowledge you share. Thank you!

  • @EhrenmannHenno7469
    @EhrenmannHenno7469 4 місяці тому

    Always nice seeing your videos

  • @caasifedel8751
    @caasifedel8751 4 місяці тому +1

    Youngstown, specifically Crandall Park, has tons of native trees and perennials, not through any management, but from total neglect and lack of money to “manage” the parks (yay!) Erythronium americanum, Antennaria parlinii, and a most spectacular display of Claytonia virginiana carpeting the entire mown areas in the spring and a lot of surrounding residential. Tiny little park with semi annual shootings. And bluebirds.

  • @tomanderson7129
    @tomanderson7129 4 місяці тому +1

    I'm wondering about bison, their extirpation and how they influenced the prairie ecosystem.
    (?)

  • @kso808
    @kso808 4 місяці тому +1

    I’ve got liatris spicata in my yard, and have gotten to appreciate them more over the years. I may plant more.

  • @trev_dingo
    @trev_dingo 4 місяці тому +1

    Banger episode bruh, nice to see some East Coast plant life in there 🙌

  • @jennifergamble3272
    @jennifergamble3272 Місяць тому

    I love solidago. Bought one plant last year and this year I have thousands of seeds.

  • @Bizarreparade
    @Bizarreparade 4 місяці тому +1

    What are you doing in my neighborhood? Wild. Love it. Enjoy!

  • @sjmazzoli
    @sjmazzoli 4 місяці тому +3

    tony joe...2-300 miles from here...awesome!...rock on brother

  • @wamlartmuse17
    @wamlartmuse17 4 місяці тому +17

    I'm definitely going to call & mess with the scammer after I watch this video.
    I absolutely love messing with scammers.
    One day I had to fart pretty bad. It couldn't have been better timing. A scammer called me. I went through the automated questions & waited until the scammer got on. As soon as he got on, I talked to him for a couple seconds. I was in bed on my back. I hiked one leg up to my chest & put the phone by my butt. Then I let it rip 😂. It was the most perfect fart you could imagine. The guy didn't say a word, he just hung up immediately 😂.I bet he tasted it😂😂😂! I actually stopped receiving scam calls from them after that. It was the school debt loan scammers.

    • @aboz8649
      @aboz8649 4 місяці тому

      Excellent work walmartmuse

  • @aheinzer
    @aheinzer 4 місяці тому +3

    Slippery Rock and Youngstown. Nice.

  • @JoseMartinez-df2db
    @JoseMartinez-df2db 4 місяці тому +2

    A man with tattoos, Chicago accent who loves Native plants is a man I would marry! I wish there was a gay clone of you!! And your fucking HILARIOUS!! ❤ Keep up the great work!!

  • @hinerron
    @hinerron 4 місяці тому

    For real I love all of these videos thank you so, so much! It's an entertaining approach to Botany in a Day-esque education with down to earth language. I just love a casual educational walk through a prairie or any biome really. Why you always gotta hate on forests so much though? I know the mosquitos can be worse but there are some incredible plants and trees you're missing out on. You ever get the urge to walk or slosh through a wetland or swamp or bog or boreal forest?

  • @TreeHairedGingerAle
    @TreeHairedGingerAle 4 місяці тому +1

    Fantastic as usual! 🥳🥳🥳✨

  • @Flowmaster925
    @Flowmaster925 4 місяці тому +1

    Most of the parks and recreation areas in Allegheny county have been going Native and conserving the ecosystem, some areas better than others but there is a big effort to bring it all back.

  • @karalevskyborzoi
    @karalevskyborzoi 4 місяці тому +1

    "If you live in Pittsburgh and have full sun." 🤣🤣🤣

  • @jjdawg9918
    @jjdawg9918 4 місяці тому +1

    Liatris Aspera is starting to bloom here in the Chicago area. My favorite Liatris but is also means the summer is over.

  • @cooper45300
    @cooper45300 4 місяці тому +1

    If you ever find yourself in the eastern panhandle of WV, I've got 60 acres in a holler you'd be welcome to check out.

  • @allonesame6467
    @allonesame6467 3 місяці тому

    West of there in Ohio, is where the glaciers dropped 14 foot of top soil. Grew up on that hill top. Best truck garden on limestone soil and sweet spring water in the ravine in the woods below. Great sweet corn. We grew everything.

  • @sagetmaster4
    @sagetmaster4 4 місяці тому +2

    I remember when Jack was nimble, sprey, and quick on your hikes. Time comes for us all
    I too, don't care about Soladago speciation

  • @plasticcoyote
    @plasticcoyote 4 місяці тому +1

    Ayoo no way, I was just there visiting family and recommending this channel to my cousin lol

  • @EricPeterson-e5n
    @EricPeterson-e5n 4 місяці тому +5

    Oh God! Love it when you highlight the Midwest prairies. Welcome Joey

    • @00TheD
      @00TheD 4 місяці тому +1

      Pa not Midwest.

  • @cyg710
    @cyg710 4 місяці тому +5

    Welcome to da Burgh!

  • @jaimel4740
    @jaimel4740 4 місяці тому +1

    Hey Tony, I live in the Chicagoland area. Would you consider doing any tours at any of our conservatories? I’m pretty sure people would pay you to do that. I know I would.

  • @bobs5596
    @bobs5596 2 місяці тому

    i feed my pigeon's Proso Millet bird seed and it grows in the crack between the sidewalk and the curb, just like st john's wort. it basically grows on nothing, with big prop roots spread over the curb and sidewalk. it is a magnificent plant and has 7 seed stalks each as big as an ear of corn. this is a plant to grow when there is no dirt and food is absolutely needed.

  • @charlesfichter68
    @charlesfichter68 4 місяці тому +1

    Quite fun to see Joe go apeshit on the Solidago and the Eutrochium : I’m watching this video from a train in Switzerland and the moment I looked at the tracks it was full of these two 😂 amazing how one plant can be a banger in its native environment and a pain in the backside over another continent

  • @lairdhaynes1986
    @lairdhaynes1986 4 місяці тому +2

    Bringin' the ringens nice. Mimulus is bonafide bangers fr.

  • @terminallytwee
    @terminallytwee 4 місяці тому +1

    Bummed I missed you here in Pittsburgh!

  • @canadiangemstones7636
    @canadiangemstones7636 4 місяці тому

    Incredible closeup of that Veronicastrum!

  • @siryogiwan
    @siryogiwan 4 місяці тому +1

    the flowers on the Spiraea alba remind me of teatree flowers

    • @siryogiwan
      @siryogiwan 4 місяці тому

      you should send that number to kiboga lol

    • @siryogiwan
      @siryogiwan 4 місяці тому +1

      you ever considered contacting a fire crew and see if they want to do some training with fire control, doing mosaic burns in the areas you see needing it? I know rural fire service in Oz like to get involved in that sort of thing, both for training and in case it goes crazy and tries to take off

  • @Hemigoblin
    @Hemigoblin 4 місяці тому +1

    I love looking for water hemlock wherever I go in the northeast ever since I learned about it. It's just wild to me how one of the deadliest plants in North America is so widespread and not well-known. Death is all around us.

  •  4 місяці тому +1

    Ever been to Highlands, NC? I think you'd love its unique geography and biodiversity.

  • @kavalkid1
    @kavalkid1 4 місяці тому +1

    Ha !! So good, and such intelligence! Pycnanthemum virginicum, my new favorite!

  • @SeekerKC
    @SeekerKC 4 місяці тому +1

    Southwestern PA! My ol' stompin' grahnds! ✨❤

  • @jaydoyle3908
    @jaydoyle3908 4 місяці тому +1

    When are you coming though Maryland???❤

  • @benwinkel
    @benwinkel 4 місяці тому +1

    Along came a bee, and to a rosaceous flower said she:
    "Please allow me to take a risk with your nectariferous disc!"

  • @theepicbret
    @theepicbret 4 місяці тому +1

    Liatris are such monarch magnets in IL

  • @wamlartmuse17
    @wamlartmuse17 4 місяці тому +3

    I'm definitely going to call & mess with the scammer after I watch this video.
    I absolutely love messing with scammers.

  • @kenthorsen4558
    @kenthorsen4558 4 місяці тому +1

    Nw Illinois has a real nice prairie close to me, and the goldenrod is blooming...six weeks till first frost.

  • @Rpodnee
    @Rpodnee 4 місяці тому +1

    I have a prairie just like that near me at the northernmost point of French Creek here in PA.

  • @canaanval
    @canaanval 4 місяці тому +1

    Gotta love blazing star and massasaugas, even up here 600km north of Pittsburg

  • @judysteinhilper9742
    @judysteinhilper9742 4 місяці тому +1

    You're so close to me! Come up to Lycoming County/Williamsport n go Creekin'!

  • @nickgiuntoli2281
    @nickgiuntoli2281 4 місяці тому +3

    That looked like a black swallowtail butterfly at 13:36 into the video.

  • @philsturm4685
    @philsturm4685 4 місяці тому

    Hey yeah they got some plants there. Nice.

  • @frankcowan6625
    @frankcowan6625 4 місяці тому +1

    Come to NJ shore.
    Help me identify everything!
    Hugs.

  • @bélalugrisi
    @bélalugrisi 4 місяці тому +1

    Love the natives!!

  • @martinmccommonjr.1150
    @martinmccommonjr.1150 4 місяці тому

    Man, wish I knew yous was stoppin by !

  • @redbloodedbutterfly
    @redbloodedbutterfly 4 місяці тому +2

    I'll wait to see if Tony botanizes a Pennsylvania forest. Say "hi" to the wild turkeys for me if ya do and be sure to wear a neon orange vest.

  • @ecomandurban7183
    @ecomandurban7183 4 місяці тому +1

    I find this habitat unusual. Here where I live on the east coast of South Africa open in spaces like that the plant species are dominated by grasses and low growing herbs with a high percentage of legumes

  • @Instinctive82
    @Instinctive82 4 місяці тому +1

    How do you train your lovely canines to not even think about chasing prey items and just generally be such good dogs?

  • @gslidevideotester8592
    @gslidevideotester8592 4 місяці тому +1

    Etymology factoid regarding V. noveboracensis, it means New York because Eboracum is the Roman name for York (English city), so Nova Eboracum is New York, and the -censis is a genitive form, the specific epithet literally means "of New York".

  • @PenntuckytheCrag
    @PenntuckytheCrag 4 місяці тому +4

    Coming to see me in NE Lancaster PA

    • @PenntuckytheCrag
      @PenntuckytheCrag 4 місяці тому +2

      Or anywhere to the north east or west

    • @Hemigoblin
      @Hemigoblin 4 місяці тому +1

      Sounds like he's not super into woodlands, but I had the same thought. Lots of cool native plants in nature preserves along the Susquehanna, and the terrain is just gorgeous.

    • @PenntuckytheCrag
      @PenntuckytheCrag 4 місяці тому +1

      @@Hemigoblin found my first PawPaw down there a month or so ago

    • @Hemigoblin
      @Hemigoblin 4 місяці тому +1

      ​@@PenntuckytheCrag Nice! I have yet to find or try them. What'd ya think of it?

    • @PenntuckytheCrag
      @PenntuckytheCrag 4 місяці тому +2

      @@Hemigoblin not ripe yet

  • @trailbotanica_beta
    @trailbotanica_beta 4 місяці тому

    I was just there a couple of weeks ago, and found everything but the liatris!

  • @hellokittysays6333
    @hellokittysays6333 4 місяці тому +7

    The Solid Doggos ❤

  • @Joannesyoga
    @Joannesyoga 4 місяці тому +1

    🙂 from UK

  • @JoseMartinez-df2db
    @JoseMartinez-df2db 4 місяці тому +1

    My sister lives in Orland Park, IL and she has extremely wet soil with rabbits that eat everything she tries to plant. What can you recommend for her garden?

    • @grannyplants1764
      @grannyplants1764 4 місяці тому

      Liatris is like rabbit crack, don’t even try it 🌱🤣

  • @LiseFracalossi
    @LiseFracalossi 4 місяці тому

    Great stuff, as always. I believe it’s Pycnanthemum virginianum, not virginicum?

  • @wamlartmuse17
    @wamlartmuse17 4 місяці тому +4

    I just got done with an Adam Haritan video. He made a video about American chestnut in Pennsylvania.
    I guess I need to go to Pennsylvania to hang out with all the cool people.

  • @royalwalks
    @royalwalks 4 місяці тому +2

    Swamp dogwood diss :( I planted three of these, hardy chump

  • @aninhabitantofpaintedcliff3066
    @aninhabitantofpaintedcliff3066 4 місяці тому +4

    I saw you at sheets

  • @junkettarp8942
    @junkettarp8942 4 місяці тому

    King Tony and crew strikes again...........Jai Guru Deva.

  • @mike-o5g
    @mike-o5g 4 місяці тому

    those scarlet bee balms are like crack for hummingbirds, better than any other flower or hummingbird feeder at attracting them in my opinion. once a hummingbird finds a patch theyre on it every day.

  • @MrMgriz
    @MrMgriz 4 місяці тому +1

    What time of year is this? Can’t say I’ve seen golden rod and liatris bloom at the same time. Here in Ohio they’re extreme ends of the growing season.

  • @seanstuckless9839
    @seanstuckless9839 4 місяці тому +1

    Hey Joey, I don't know if we'd let you across the border (no offence) but if you make it, come check out the Bruce Peninsula in southern Ontario for the limestone alvars with the hot gryke action. Might even get bitten by a Canadian Massassauga (don't worry, they hiss ssssssorry after and the local free healthcare system keeps lots of antivenom in stock).

    • @canadiangemstones7636
      @canadiangemstones7636 4 місяці тому +1

      I’ll second that recommendation. The Bruce is amazing, has it all.

  • @zinckensteel
    @zinckensteel 4 місяці тому

    Eee! The other half of my back yard as a kid. Cumberland Valley till I was nearly ten.