{"id":532,"date":"2009-11-06T17:34:21","date_gmt":"2009-11-06T23:34:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.80acresonline.org\/blog\/?p=532"},"modified":"2009-11-06T17:34:21","modified_gmt":"2009-11-06T23:34:21","slug":"details-from-todays-walkaround","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.80acresonline.org\/blog\/?p=532","title":{"rendered":"Details from Today&#8217;s Walkaround"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Some grasses should be planted just for the way they look with sunlight slanting through them in the fall.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-533\" title=\"backlit-muhly094\" src=\"http:\/\/www.80acresonline.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/backlit-muhly094.jpg\" alt=\"backlit-muhly094\" width=\"322\" height=\"241\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.80acresonline.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/backlit-muhly094.jpg 322w, http:\/\/www.80acresonline.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/backlit-muhly094-300x224.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 322px) 100vw, 322px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This is one.\u00a0 It&#8217;s one of the Muhlys, but I don&#8217;t know which.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>I\u00a0 found one sideoats grama whose seedheads still had color&#8211;had rebloomed after the rain.\u00a0\u00a0 Here its red shows up well against the soft blue-green of prickly pear, and below it are three seedheads of silky bluestem:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-534\" title=\"sideoats-silky-blstm-cactus115\" src=\"http:\/\/www.80acresonline.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/sideoats-silky-blstm-cactus115.jpg\" alt=\"sideoats-silky-blstm-cactus115\" width=\"256\" height=\"309\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.80acresonline.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/sideoats-silky-blstm-cactus115.jpg 256w, http:\/\/www.80acresonline.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/sideoats-silky-blstm-cactus115-248x300.jpg 248w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 256px) 100vw, 256px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Lots of butterflies were out&#8211;mostly American Snouts, but also various sulphurs (not cooperative about holding still for pictures except for the smallest, the Dainty Sulphur) and various skippers, including quite a few Common Skippers, both male and female.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-535\" title=\"skipper-on-mallow081\" src=\"http:\/\/www.80acresonline.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/skipper-on-mallow081.jpg\" alt=\"skipper-on-mallow081\" width=\"322\" height=\"263\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.80acresonline.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/skipper-on-mallow081.jpg 322w, http:\/\/www.80acresonline.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/skipper-on-mallow081-300x245.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 322px) 100vw, 322px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s on one of the tiny yellow mallow-family flowers (another just visible in upper right corner.)<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a Dainty Sulphur, one of a half-dozen each perched singly on the dried flower-head of this Compositae:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-536\" title=\"dainty-sulfur133\" src=\"http:\/\/www.80acresonline.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/dainty-sulfur133.jpg\" alt=\"dainty-sulfur133\" width=\"274\" height=\"304\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.80acresonline.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/dainty-sulfur133.jpg 274w, http:\/\/www.80acresonline.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/dainty-sulfur133-270x300.jpg 270w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 274px) 100vw, 274px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Here and there in the dry woods, I found wild onion blooming:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-537\" title=\"wild-onion096\" src=\"http:\/\/www.80acresonline.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/wild-onion096.jpg\" alt=\"wild-onion096\" width=\"211\" height=\"304\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.80acresonline.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/wild-onion096.jpg 211w, http:\/\/www.80acresonline.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/wild-onion096-208x300.jpg 208w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 211px) 100vw, 211px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>But the prize for the day was finding that the small population of <em>Mirabilis alba,<\/em> a native prairie forb, up by the SW corner of the dry woods, had multiplied&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-538\" title=\"sm-mirabilis-alba-flower075\" src=\"http:\/\/www.80acresonline.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/sm-mirabilis-alba-flower075.jpg\" alt=\"sm-mirabilis-alba-flower075\" width=\"197\" height=\"326\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.80acresonline.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/sm-mirabilis-alba-flower075.jpg 197w, http:\/\/www.80acresonline.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/sm-mirabilis-alba-flower075-181x300.jpg 181w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 197px) 100vw, 197px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>It first showed up in our restoration project quite a distance from this\u00a0 group, and several years before it.\u00a0\u00a0 Glad to see it spreading.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 It&#8217;s hard to recognize except when it&#8217;s blooming, and due to the drought it didn&#8217;t bloom at its normal time this year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some grasses should be planted just for the way they look with sunlight slanting through them in the fall. This is one.\u00a0 It&#8217;s one of the Muhlys, but I don&#8217;t know which.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27,21,7,4],"tags":[71,13,36,22,32,70,42],"class_list":["post-532","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-activities","category-photography","category-plantlife","category-wildlife","tag-activities","tag-beauty","tag-butterflies","tag-census","tag-native-plants","tag-photography","tag-prairie-restoration"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.80acresonline.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/532"}],"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=532"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.80acresonline.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/532\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":539,"href":"http:\/\/www.80acresonline.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/532\/revisions\/539"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.80acresonline.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=532"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.80acresonline.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=532"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.80acresonline.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=532"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}