{"id":272,"date":"2010-05-06T08:22:49","date_gmt":"2010-05-06T13:22:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/gazette\/2010\/05\/06\/20100506_wildflowers\/"},"modified":"2022-03-17T14:13:44","modified_gmt":"2022-03-17T19:13:44","slug":"20100506_wildflowers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/2010\/05\/06\/20100506_wildflowers\/","title":{"rendered":"West Texas Wildflowers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Our part of the state is better known for tumbleweeds than wildflowers, but when we get a little spring rainfall, things change dramatically.<\/p>\n<p>I took a 30-minute stroll yesterday morning, and within a three-block area found sixteen different varieties of wildflowers. OK, most of them are technically flowering weeds, but, you know, <i>potato<\/i>\/<i>potahto<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p>Some of these may at first glance appear to be duplicates, but if you look closely, you&#8217;ll see that they&#8217;re different varieties. And please don&#8217;t ask me to identify them; the only ones I can name are the bluebonnet, the chocolate daisy, and the purple nightshade.<\/p>\n<p>Click on the photo for a bigger version.<\/p>\n<p><i>Update: I spent some time browsing various wildflower-related websites and I *think* I&#8217;ve identified most of the flowers. Feel free to correct me or to provide identities for the three species I couldn&#8217;t match to anything in my &#8220;research.&#8221;<\/i><\/p>\n<p>Top row (l-r): Blue curls, Huisache daisy, Purple nightshade, Coreopsis<br \/>\n2nd row (l-r): Limestone gaura, Chocolate daisy, Unknown, Rabbit tobacco<br \/>\n3rd row (l-r): Blackfoot daisy, Gray vervain, Paper daisy, Unknown<br \/>\n4th row (l-r): Bluebonnet, Firewheel, Unknown, Dahlberg daisy<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/images\/miscphotos\/wildflowers2010.jpg\" title=\"\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-0\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: 1px solid #cccccc;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/images\/miscphotos\/wildflowers2010_med.jpg\" alt=\"Photo collage - West Texas wildflowers\"><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our part of the state is better known for tumbleweeds than wildflowers, but when we get a little spring rainfall, things change dramatically. I took a 30-minute stroll yesterday morning, and within a three-block area found sixteen different varieties of wildflowers. OK, most of them are technically flowering weeds, but, you know, potato\/potahto. Some of&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/2010\/05\/06\/20100506_wildflowers\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">West Texas Wildflowers<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,5,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-272","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-midland-odessa","category-nature","category-photography","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=272"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8942,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272\/revisions\/8942"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=272"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=272"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=272"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}