{"id":16523,"date":"2019-11-10T14:09:12","date_gmt":"2019-11-10T18:09:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/?p=16523"},"modified":"2019-11-11T19:22:13","modified_gmt":"2019-11-11T23:22:13","slug":"tis-the-seedy-season-part-i","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/?p=16523","title":{"rendered":"‘Tis the Seedy Season: Part I"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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This plant with the distinctive foliage and red stems has been avoiding identification for years. It grows in abundance in the woods near my house. When I first saw it, I thought it was wintergreen, so I picked a leaf and sniffed it, because I thought wintergreen would have a minty smell. Nope. So I decided it wasn’t wintergreen. I failed to get a picture of its flowers earlier in the year, but here, at least, is a picture of the seed capsules. They will turn brown as they mature. And I know now what this plant is. It’s called spotted wintergreen (or striped wintergreen)<\/a>, so I was not entirely wrong before. I was just confused, because the name “wintergreen” is shared by other plants. To get the minty smell, I would have to find American wintergreen (a.k.a. teaberry)<\/a>, an unrelated plant, which I have seen before in woods farther north, but not here.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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This peculiar looking thing is the seed capsule of Indian pipe<\/a>. Presumably it will just get browner and grosser looking (see next picture).<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Indian Pipe Gone All Brown and Gross
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These pointy-looking things used to be spotted knapweed<\/a> flowers.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Remember the clematis<\/a>? I thought it looked weird when I first saw it in September, but it got weirder and woollier as the year progressed.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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In mid-October, it looked like a hybrid of a sheep and a shrub. A shreep!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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This is how the rabbit’s-foot clover<\/a> looked in mid-October when it was seeding. I petted it, because I had to know if it was as soft as it looked. It was! Rabbit’s foot clover is such a cute wildflower that it’s become one of my favorites.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[10,588,100],"tags":[420,107,124,593],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16523"}],"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=16523"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16523\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16653,"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16523\/revisions\/16653"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16523"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16523"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16523"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}