{"id":16126,"date":"2019-09-22T14:30:44","date_gmt":"2019-09-22T18:30:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/?p=16126"},"modified":"2020-10-08T12:07:51","modified_gmt":"2020-10-08T16:07:51","slug":"mystery-flower-15","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/?p=16126","title":{"rendered":"Mystery Flower #15"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I spotted this peculiar hairy plant while out walking last week.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/hairy2-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-16127\" width=\"384\" height=\"512\" srcset=\"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/hairy2-768x1024.jpg 768w, http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/hairy2-225x300.jpg 225w, http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/hairy2.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 384px) 100vw, 384px\" \/><figcaption>What on earth?<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/hairy3-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-16128\" width=\"512\" height=\"384\" srcset=\"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/hairy3-1024x768.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/hairy3-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/hairy3-768x576.jpg 768w, http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/hairy3.jpg 1542w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 512px) 100vw, 512px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>This was a tough plant to identify! I looked through my field guides multiple times. I ran numerous Internet image searches. Nothing looked exactly like this plant. I was beginning to get frustrated, but I refused to fail, and I did finally solve the mystery. The trick, for me, was to realize that it isn&#8217;t a shrub, that those hairy things are not flowers, and that this plant looks quite different when it&#8217;s in bloom. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Do you know what this Mystery Flower is? My best guess is in the comments.<br><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I spotted this peculiar hairy plant while out walking last week. This was a tough plant to identify! I looked through my field guides multiple times. I ran numerous Internet image searches. Nothing looked exactly like this plant. I was &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/?p=16126\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[105,100],"tags":[107,496,124,66],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16126"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16126"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16126\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18651,"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16126\/revisions\/18651"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16126"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16126"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16126"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}