{"id":205,"date":"2009-03-22T17:43:05","date_gmt":"2009-03-22T23:43:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.80acresonline.org\/blog\/?p=205"},"modified":"2009-03-22T17:45:49","modified_gmt":"2009-03-22T23:45:49","slug":"wildflowers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.80acresonline.org\/blog\/?p=205","title":{"rendered":"Wildflowers"},"content":{"rendered":"

Spring has leapt forward this week.\u00a0 On the way to church in the city, I saw drifts of bluebonnets…but the following pictures are from our place, taken in the last day or so.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 They’re small and scattered, but beautiful–and very<\/em> popular with the local small wildlife (insects, for instance.)<\/p>\n

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I haven’t had time yet to look up which eager little eaters these are.<\/p>\n

The first blackfoot daisies, Melampodium leucanthum<\/span><\/em>, are flowering now, only a few flowers to a plant–with enough rain, they form thick nosegays of pure cool white.<\/span><\/p>\n

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You can see the buds for more flowers on this one.\u00a0\u00a0 Another wildflower, usually flowering earlier than this, is the Texas cranesbill, <\/span> Erodium texanum<\/span><\/em>.\u00a0 Its flowers are larger and a deeper purple with sufficient moisture–sometimes covering a patch on the roadside with royal purple.<\/span><\/p>\n

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This year the flowers and leaves are small, and the flowers more pinky-purple, but they’re still lovely little things. <\/span><\/p>\n

Coral honeysuckle, <\/span> Lonicera sempervirens<\/span><\/em>,<\/span> <\/span><\/em> is one of several native honeysuckles that grow here (the commonest honeysuckle is Japanese honeysuckle and an invasive pest.)\u00a0 We planted purchased ones for several years with little success and then found this one, about 15-20 feet tall, nearly smothered by Japanese honeysuckle…now it shines out from the trees in the west creek woods and we hope it will propagate.
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Hummingbirds and honeysuckle-nectaring moths are fond of it, but we haven’t seen a hummer yet this spring.
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Spring has leapt forward this week.\u00a0 On the way to church in the city, I saw drifts of bluebonnets…but the following pictures are from our place, taken in the last day or so.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 They’re small and scattered, but beautiful–and very popular with the local small wildlife (insects, for instance.) I haven’t had time yet to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,7],"tags":[13,32,70],"class_list":["post-205","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photography","category-plantlife","tag-beauty","tag-native-plants","tag-photography"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.80acresonline.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.80acresonline.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.80acresonline.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.80acresonline.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.80acresonline.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=205"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.80acresonline.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":211,"href":"http:\/\/www.80acresonline.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205\/revisions\/211"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.80acresonline.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=205"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.80acresonline.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=205"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.80acresonline.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=205"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}