Why Don't These Plants Need Seeds? (Moss and Ferns): Crash Course Botany #8

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  • @crashcourse
    @crashcourse  ปีที่แล้ว +98

    The answer to the extra credit question is… sphagnum moss! What plant would you like to thank for its helpfulness?

    • @kbrcomplexly
      @kbrcomplexly ปีที่แล้ว +12

      i'd like to thank aloe for alleviating the sunburns i get on my unfortunately pale skin 😅

    • @kingpopaul
      @kingpopaul ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Was also used as menstrual pads.

    • @QuiteSanelyInsane
      @QuiteSanelyInsane ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Sword ferns! The orange sporangia on the underside of their phyllids can be used to treat minor cuts, abrasions, and even stinging nettle :)

    • @amandas5398
      @amandas5398 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      I’d like to thank stinging nettle - for the medicinal help it provides to humans AND the boost it’s presence gives to other plants in my garden!

  • @pedrostormrage
    @pedrostormrage ปีที่แล้ว +52

    13:08 The bryophyte that can be used to dress wounds is the sphagnum (or peat) moss (you can see it at 4:53). It is known to absorb moisture a lot quicker than cotton (90% percent of the cells in a sphagnum plant are dead, so they can be filled with water), in addition to being an effective antiseptic (the plant's cell walls have negatively charged sugar molecules, which attract positively charged nutrient ions (like potassium, sodium and calcium), which when released make the environment around it acidic, inhibiting the growth of bacteria.).

  • @Stephshouse23
    @Stephshouse23 ปีที่แล้ว +27

    I’m in love with this series I wanted to be a plant scientist but life has taken me down a different path. No other show teaches with accuracy and enthusiasm than this. With Crash Course I have access to knowledge I would otherwise wouldn’t know where to begin without paying for classes. Thank you thank you thank you!
    I’ve been watching crash course since I was 14 in biology class freshman year in 2014 and I just want to say that I believe wholeheartedly in cc and hope one day I’ll be able to support the next generation of curious kids like me ♥️

  • @67comet
    @67comet ปีที่แล้ว +21

    I "LOVE" your energy! You're an awesome addition to the Crashcourse crew!.. We appreciate you!

  • @MariaMartinez-researcher
    @MariaMartinez-researcher ปีที่แล้ว +43

    "Mars will come to fear my botany powers."
    Today, I learned something about evolution. The living beings that branched earlier, haven't stopped evolving in their particular ways. If they are still alive, is because they are still successful.
    They aren't primitive or lower. They are tough and smart.

  • @Beryllahawk
    @Beryllahawk ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Ferns and mosses are the BEST. I have always loved them because they look so soft and green, they really make me think "this is a lush place"! I'm starting on a journey this year to learn how to propagate ferns, too - I have a beautiful patch of them and I want to get them in many more places in my yard, I just have to learn how to help them do their thing! It promises to be a challenge but I'm excited!

  • @corgi42069
    @corgi42069 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Your enthusiasm is infectious!!

  • @thesocialnerd
    @thesocialnerd ปีที่แล้ว +7

    Yay! New episode! Loving the series so far
    Also, looking at my lil rabbit foot fern while I watch this episode and letting her hear about her ancestors lol

  • @marim0y
    @marim0y ปีที่แล้ว +7

    Mosses are awesome. I loved this.

  • @99721
    @99721 ปีที่แล้ว +27

    You could say the Bryophytes are much _more_ evolved, since they are older and have had more time to diversify and perfect.

    • @Go4Noctis
      @Go4Noctis ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Nice thought but no because EVERYTHING alive has been around the same amount of time and has been evolving the same amount of time.

    • @erikholgersson9235
      @erikholgersson9235 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      But that is only the case when you start setting hard lines for when a species is a new species. I mean humans are a recent species, but our ancestors are responsible for evolving into humans. So you have to count that time evolving into humans as well. This view would mean that all species on earth have had equal time to evolve since we all came from the same common ancestor

  • @joshuaharrison9331
    @joshuaharrison9331 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    The group of plant-nerds I go to uni with are Bryophyte obsessed - They were the first plants I learned to key out & study so I still have a keen respect for them & their pioneering niche.

  • @Syco108
    @Syco108 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Gurl! That hair! You're killing it! Thank you for the plant knowledge❤

  • @guanabanajuice13
    @guanabanajuice13 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    This is my version of Saturday Morning Cartoons. Thank you so much!

  • @therongjr
    @therongjr ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Your energy is amazing, and I'm so happy that you have the same love of liverworts and club-mosses that I do! 💚 They don't get enough attention . . . and the alternation of generations is somehow so alien to us, although it's all around us! 😮

  • @fayem4091
    @fayem4091 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    This is my favourite series ever!

  • @Shake1
    @Shake1 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Highlights to brazil, i came here by a colleague recommendation and JUST LOVED the way you teach, it's nothing like a botany book you could borrow in library but it is all contextualized and rich of content and love. Although, i'd like to request some captions since there are many scientific words and some others i couldn't get

  • @itan96
    @itan96 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Those butterflies in your hair are so awesome!!!!! Can't get enough of them!

  • @rckli
    @rckli ปีที่แล้ว +2

    I loved all of this, her attitude, and this weed I’m smoking 🎉

  • @Sylvia8-z6c
    @Sylvia8-z6c ปีที่แล้ว +2

    I like listening to your video to learn English.

  • @Anuchan
    @Anuchan ปีที่แล้ว +1

    This video has spurred my desire to learn more about botany. Thanks!

  • @NickGamer1211
    @NickGamer1211 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Thanks for the new knowledge

  • @duskadown6751
    @duskadown6751 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    I love moss

  • @roxcaz
    @roxcaz ปีที่แล้ว +6

    Great Course. Thank you

  • @Flow_3801
    @Flow_3801 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    This is so educative to listen to, i wish this video came earlier in my high school, nice work

  • @CristinaMCGil
    @CristinaMCGil ปีที่แล้ว +2

    unrelated to plants, I'm mesmerized by the butterfly clips in your hair!! they move!!!

  • @gucciflipflops6064
    @gucciflipflops6064 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    It would've been awesome if I had this video to study for my exams during my first botany course 😭 The alternation of generations confused me to no end but it's never to late to understand old information! Thanks thought bubble!! 🫂

  • @Davlavi
    @Davlavi ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Love furns.

  • @ponyote
    @ponyote ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Here from Be Smart. Yay plants!

  • @KerrikkiLurgan
    @KerrikkiLurgan ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Mosses are my favourite plants

  • @christopherwarner6896
    @christopherwarner6896 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Def favorite episode so far!

  • @georgigeorgiev9931
    @georgigeorgiev9931 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I love masses 💜 Used to have them as mount wall

  • @canis2020
    @canis2020 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I lichen these videos so much!

  • @chocomalk
    @chocomalk ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Gotta be the cutest thumbnail ever lol

  • @lr8786
    @lr8786 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Her butterflies are cute.

  • @samwill7259
    @samwill7259 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Like any good science teacher, she's tossing out the puns thick and fast. Bless

  • @corruptedsociety_
    @corruptedsociety_ ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I’m not in school, but I love crash corse regardless

  • @boehrb
    @boehrb ปีที่แล้ว

    I'm lichen those fluttery butterfly hair clips!!

  • @electroxyz5674
    @electroxyz5674 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    i have waiting for this video thanx🥳👌

  • @esteriistiel331
    @esteriistiel331 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I almost remembered the answer to the extra credit question. I was gonna say it's called old man's beard lichen, all because of the game "the long dark"

  • @stax6092
    @stax6092 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    You Said think of a Plant and I immediately thought "Fern". Wasn't sure if I should've thought of Moss.

  • @sarahgriffith1424
    @sarahgriffith1424 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Alexis is awesome!!!!

  • @sydneyschmidt4267
    @sydneyschmidt4267 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Alexis you’re the best!!! Your foraged veggie tik toks blew my mind when I first saw them:) so cool you’re doing crash course botany! Can’t imagine a better person!

  • @muahlakaparak
    @muahlakaparak ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Beautiful👍

  • @novice7T7
    @novice7T7 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    if plants took over all the soil how many plans would there be or would huge plants spur in groups.

  • @Ganymedescup
    @Ganymedescup ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Dress my wounds with that peat moss, please.

  • @therongjr
    @therongjr ปีที่แล้ว +1

    0:48 - I don't think those are liverworts? It looks like the right kind of environment for them, but they look like some are on stems and have radial vasculature.

  • @caitlinhanson2773
    @caitlinhanson2773 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Love Crash Course. Is there any possibility of the Literature part of Crash Course to do an analysis and summary of George Lammings "In the Castle of my Skin", I have been struggling to grasp it a bit.

  • @mercuriallimit
    @mercuriallimit ปีที่แล้ว +1

    my god, braided hair WITHIN braided hair!! it looks so nice.

  • @KifoNemkana
    @KifoNemkana ปีที่แล้ว

    I love plants

  • @MeatPops
    @MeatPops ปีที่แล้ว +1

    3:35 A lot of fun-gis were hurt by this statement.

  • @nicolenew1708
    @nicolenew1708 ปีที่แล้ว

    AMAZING

  • @dapprligtnin98
    @dapprligtnin98 ปีที่แล้ว

    Oh sweet Narcos Mexico Season 1 memories come back to me, COME BACK TO ME!

  • @AdnicajChiquis
    @AdnicajChiquis ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I hit 👍 at "mossome"

  • @JulianPatrickMiller
    @JulianPatrickMiller 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Alexis!!!!!

  • @elainewu7266
    @elainewu7266 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Sphagnum mosses

  • @Sunflower-sg1it
    @Sunflower-sg1it ปีที่แล้ว +1

    she is so pretty

  • @shawnholbrook7278
    @shawnholbrook7278 ปีที่แล้ว

    Is the answer spaghum moss?

  • @imgooley
    @imgooley ปีที่แล้ว

    The thumbnail madee hear yahaha! In my head

  • @Shehz-95
    @Shehz-95 ปีที่แล้ว

    Why is Crash Course getting quite low views these days?

  • @sankimalu
    @sankimalu ปีที่แล้ว +1

    The host with the MossT…

  • @shawnholbrook7278
    @shawnholbrook7278 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Lichens!

  • @hrhevansjohn8528
    @hrhevansjohn8528 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    👍

  • @katsomeday1
    @katsomeday1 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    The first multicellular life on land isn't plant or animal. The oldest known land life fossils, (about 135 million years older than plans,) is fungus. Why is it educational shows like this always seem to forget the third kingdom of multicellular life fungi.

  • @GamerKimberly191
    @GamerKimberly191 ปีที่แล้ว

    Ummm cool

  • @drsingingeagle
    @drsingingeagle ปีที่แล้ว

    So do liverworts have livers? How about warts? 😜