Vascular Plants = Winning! - Crash Course Biology #37
Hank introduces us to one of the most diverse and important families in the tree of life - the vascular plants. These plants have found tremendous success and the their secret is also their...
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This is yarrow, a flowering plant found all over the Northern Hemisphere. Its feathery leaves have natural astringent properties, and its scientific name, Achillea, comes from Achilles, the Greek hero, who is said to have used it on the wounds of his soldiers. And this is snakegrass, also known as horsetail or, to the kids, popgrass, because you can just pop it apart, and then put it back together again. Although on top there, it's dead now. And this is a ponderosa pine, one of my favorite trees. They can grow hundreds of feet tall, and on a warm day if you sniff it, it smells like butterscotch. They all have different shapes, sizes, and properties, but each of these things is a vascular plant, one of the most diverse and, dare I say, important famil...
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This is yarrow, a flowering plant found all over the Northern Hemisphere. Its feathery leaves have natural astringent properties, and its scientific name, Achillea, comes from Achilles, the Greek hero, who is said to have used it on the wounds of his soldiers. And this is snakegrass, also known as horsetail or, to the kids, popgrass, because you can just pop it apart, and then put it back together again. Although on top there, it's dead now. And this is a ponderosa pine, one of my favorite trees. They can grow hundreds of feet tall, and on a warm day if you sniff it, it smells like butterscotch. They all have different shapes, sizes, and properties, but each of these things is a vascular plant, one of the most diverse and, dare I say, important famil...
