{"id":273,"date":"2009-05-23T14:51:03","date_gmt":"2009-05-23T20:51:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.80acresonline.org\/blog\/?p=273"},"modified":"2009-05-23T22:44:19","modified_gmt":"2009-05-24T04:44:19","slug":"purple-yellow-and-white","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.80acresonline.org\/blog\/?p=273","title":{"rendered":"Purple, Yellow, and White"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The half-inch of rain last weekend brought out a few more flowers, and today the theme was purple and yellow.\u00a0 The most intense yellow belonged to the claspleaf coneflowers, damp-ground lovers, here in the swale below the #3 gabion.\u00a0 The lacy white in the foreground bears the unlovely name of beggars&#8217; ticks, for its adherent seeds.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-274\" title=\"no-3-gabion-coneflowers235\" src=\"http:\/\/www.80acresonline.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/no-3-gabion-coneflowers235.jpg\" alt=\"no-3-gabion-coneflowers235\" width=\"343\" height=\"223\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.80acresonline.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/no-3-gabion-coneflowers235.jpg 343w, http:\/\/www.80acresonline.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/no-3-gabion-coneflowers235-300x195.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 343px) 100vw, 343px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><!--more-->Hidden among the coneflowers were a few lemon horsemint, their purple striking against that strong yellow.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-275\" title=\"coneflower-lemon-horsemint236\" src=\"http:\/\/www.80acresonline.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/coneflower-lemon-horsemint236.jpg\" alt=\"coneflower-lemon-horsemint236\" width=\"216\" height=\"331\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.80acresonline.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/coneflower-lemon-horsemint236.jpg 216w, http:\/\/www.80acresonline.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/coneflower-lemon-horsemint236-195x300.jpg 195w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 216px) 100vw, 216px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Up out of the damp-ground areas and into the dry woods, where there is basically no soil, just rocks, the skeleton flowers were in bloom.\u00a0 These lovely delicate flowers grow on naked stalks that appear to rise from the most unlikely ground.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-276\" title=\"skeleton-plant-flower259\" src=\"http:\/\/www.80acresonline.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/skeleton-plant-flower259.jpg\" alt=\"skeleton-plant-flower259\" width=\"318\" height=\"301\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.80acresonline.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/skeleton-plant-flower259.jpg 318w, http:\/\/www.80acresonline.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/skeleton-plant-flower259-300x283.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 318px) 100vw, 318px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m very fond of them and was happily taking pictures of each one (we have more than we used to) when I realized that I&#8217;d never seen<em> that<\/em> fly before.\u00a0\u00a0 I&#8217;m not sure about the insect across the flower from it (they seemed wary of one another) but that one was shyer.\u00a0\u00a0 Pretty spotted wings&#8230;so I had to close in for a tight shot that I hope will be identifiable to some entomologist.\u00a0 [EDITED 11:56 pm]\u00a0 And with thanks to Jack L. Neff, it&#8217;s been identified as a fly probably in the genus <a href=\"http:\/\/bugguide.net\/node\/view\/52720\"><em>Poecilognathus<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-277\" title=\"spot-winged-fly257\" src=\"http:\/\/www.80acresonline.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/spot-winged-fly257.jpg\" alt=\"spot-winged-fly257\" width=\"299\" height=\"348\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.80acresonline.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/spot-winged-fly257.jpg 299w, http:\/\/www.80acresonline.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/spot-winged-fly257-257x300.jpg 257w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 299px) 100vw, 299px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>After that, it was time to check on our dry woods yuccas&#8211;almost through blooming (and with very short stalks, as it has been a dry year.)<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-278\" title=\"dry-woods-yucca263\" src=\"http:\/\/www.80acresonline.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/dry-woods-yucca263.jpg\" alt=\"dry-woods-yucca263\" width=\"221\" height=\"328\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.80acresonline.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/dry-woods-yucca263.jpg 221w, http:\/\/www.80acresonline.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/dry-woods-yucca263-202x300.jpg 202w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 221px) 100vw, 221px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The yuccas in the background didn&#8217;t bloom this year, but the yuccas in this area have been increasing in the years since we got the place.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The half-inch of rain last weekend brought out a few more flowers, and today the theme was purple and yellow.\u00a0 The most intense yellow belonged to the claspleaf coneflowers, damp-ground lovers, here in the swale below the #3 gabion.\u00a0 The lacy white in the foreground bears the unlovely name of beggars&#8217; ticks, for its adherent [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,7,4],"tags":[13,32,41,70],"class_list":["post-273","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photography","category-plantlife","category-wildlife","tag-beauty","tag-native-plants","tag-new-species","tag-photography"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.80acresonline.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273"}],"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=273"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.80acresonline.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":282,"href":"http:\/\/www.80acresonline.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273\/revisions\/282"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.80acresonline.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=273"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.80acresonline.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=273"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.80acresonline.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=273"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}