PSA - your donations enable this here content. If you can throw a couple bucks to venmo address "societyishell", I would appreciate the hell out of it. The tank is running low at the moment and could use some re-ups. In this episode, CPBBD traverses 20 degrees of latitude to bring you lognwinded rants on the following topics :-stromatolites-banded Iron formations & the Great Oxygenation Event of the Proterozoic -Michigan Serpentine -"conservative species" and the Floristic Quality Assessment-Silphium albiflorumand much more.  Feel free to email crimepaysbutbotanydoesnt@gmail.com with plant ID questions and reading recommendations, fuckface.