{"id":21032,"date":"2021-10-26T09:00:38","date_gmt":"2021-10-26T13:00:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/?p=21032"},"modified":"2021-10-26T09:00:38","modified_gmt":"2021-10-26T13:00:38","slug":"charmer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/?p=21032","title":{"rendered":"Charmer"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

It’s a good thing I was hunting so carefully for interesting things in the woods last week or I might have walked right past this charming wildflower.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Charming Wildflower<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n
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Closeup of the Flowers<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n
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More Flowers<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n
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Look at those long seed pods!<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n
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The foliage is eye-catching, like a giant, green snowflake.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Isn’t this plant lovely? My field guide calls it “tall cordyalis,” but many sources refer to it as “rock harlequin,” including this webpage.<\/a> I like that name better, so rock harlequin it is. My field guide says that rock harlequin’s habitat is rocky clearings, and that’s consistent with the two places that I found it growing (in all but one of the pictures above you can see rock behind or under the plant). I found quite a few of these plants once I starting looking specifically for them. Most weren’t in bloom, perhaps because rock harlequin doesn’t bloom until its second summer. Also, the bloom time is supposed to be April-September, but it’s late October now, so maybe these particular specimens were just outliers. The flowers, though beautiful and brightly-colored, are small, so the leaves are in their own way more of an attention-grabber. But, whichever part of it makes you take a closer look, you’ll be glad that you did.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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