{"id":11347,"date":"2016-11-15T12:27:20","date_gmt":"2016-11-15T17:27:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=11347"},"modified":"2016-11-19T08:42:22","modified_gmt":"2016-11-19T13:42:22","slug":"dipsacus-teasel-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=11347","title":{"rendered":"<em>Dipsacus<\/em> (Teasel)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_11349\" style=\"width: 243px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/img_20161115_133174.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-11349\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/img_20161115_133174-233x350.jpg\" alt=\"Dipsacus (Teasel)\" width=\"233\" height=\"350\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11349\" data-wp-pid=\"11349\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/img_20161115_133174-233x350.jpg 233w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/img_20161115_133174-768x1152.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/img_20161115_133174-683x1024.jpg 683w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/img_20161115_133174-800x1200.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/img_20161115_133174-400x600.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/img_20161115_133174.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 233px) 100vw, 233px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-11349\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>Dipsacus<\/em> (Teasel)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Because it gets dark about the time I leave work, if I&#8217;m going to take pictures outdoors I have to go out during the day. It&#8217;s actually a good thing, because it breaks up my day and gets me out of my chair. It isn&#8217;t exactly vigorous exercise but at least I&#8217;m moving about. Today I went out shortly after noon and went along the edge of the woods. I took some pictures of bright red oak leaves and then saw these teasels (<em>Dipsacus<\/em> Sp.) growing on the bank sloping down from the road. I especially like the curly bits, which I think add a bit of whimsy to the spiny bracts.<\/p>\n<p>According to Wikipedia, the species <em>Dipsacus<\/em> includes about 15 species native to Europe, Asia and northern Africa. They are considered an invasive species here, although I think in the scheme of invasive species, they are not as noxious as some others I can think of. This is most likely <em>Dipsacus fullonum<\/em>, the common of fullers teasel.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Because it gets dark about the time I leave work, if I&#8217;m going to take pictures outdoors I have to go out during the day. It&#8217;s actually a good thing, because it breaks up my day and gets me out of my chair. It isn&#8217;t exactly vigorous exercise but at least I&#8217;m moving about. Today &hellip; <a class=\"read-excerpt\" href=\"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=11347\">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\/11347"}],"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=11347"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11347\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11366,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11347\/revisions\/11366"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11347"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11347"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11347"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}