{"id":10560,"date":"2016-06-25T12:03:11","date_gmt":"2016-06-25T17:03:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=10560"},"modified":"2016-06-30T17:25:22","modified_gmt":"2016-06-30T22:25:22","slug":"birds-foot-trefoil-lotus-corniculatus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=10560","title":{"rendered":"Bird&#8217;s-foot Trefoil (<em>Lotus corniculatus<\/em>)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div id=\"attachment_10563\" style=\"width: 360px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/img_20160625_127503.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-10563\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-10563\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/img_20160625_127503-350x233.jpg\" alt=\"Bird&#039;s-foot Trefoil (Lotus corniculatus)\" width=\"350\" height=\"233\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-10563\" data-wp-pid=\"10563\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/img_20160625_127503-350x233.jpg 350w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/img_20160625_127503-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/img_20160625_127503-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/img_20160625_127503-800x533.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/img_20160625_127503-600x400.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/img_20160625_127503.jpg 1800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-10563\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bird&#8217;s-foot Trefoil (<em>Lotus corniculatus<\/em>)<\/p><\/div><em>Lotus corniculatus<\/em> (Bird&#8217;s-foot Trefoil)<\/p>\n<p>Mom and I went up to the farm today for a short visit. I have a few things I wanted to do but mostly it was to get away and relax a little. It was warm but not terribly hot and in the shade, with a gentle breeze blowing, it was very pleasant. Of course I brought my camera and took pictures of a few things that are blooming right now. This is bird&#8217;s-foot trefoil (<em>Lotus corniculatus<\/em>), also known as bird&#8217;s-foot deervetch. It&#8217;s a beautiful, little flower and, like most legumes they have a symbiotic relationship with a nitrogen-fixing bacteria called <em>Rhizobia<\/em> which makes them particularly good for the soil in which they grow.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lotus corniculatus (Bird&#8217;s-foot Trefoil) Mom and I went up to the farm today for a short visit. I have a few things I wanted to do but mostly it was to get away and relax a little. It was warm but not terribly hot and in the shade, with a gentle breeze blowing, it was &hellip; <a class=\"read-excerpt\" href=\"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=10560\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&raquo;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10560"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10560"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10560\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10565,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10560\/revisions\/10565"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10560"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10560"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10560"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}