{"id":15832,"date":"2018-10-03T01:50:15","date_gmt":"2018-10-03T06:50:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=15832"},"modified":"2018-10-10T19:59:23","modified_gmt":"2018-10-11T00:59:23","slug":"mile-a-minute-vine-polygonum-perfoliatum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=15832","title":{"rendered":"Mile-a-Minute Vine (<em>Polygonum perfoliatum<\/em>)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_15834\" style=\"width: 360px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/img_20181003_159172.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-15834\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/img_20181003_159172-350x233.jpg\" alt=\"Mile-a-Minute Vine (Polygonum perfoliatum)\" width=\"350\" height=\"233\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-15834\" data-wp-pid=\"15834\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/img_20181003_159172-350x233.jpg 350w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/img_20181003_159172-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/img_20181003_159172-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/img_20181003_159172-800x533.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/img_20181003_159172-600x400.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/img_20181003_159172.jpg 1800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-15834\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mile-a-Minute Vine (<em>Polygonum perfoliatum<\/em>)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Mile-a-minute vine, also known as devil&#8217;s tail and tearthumb, is an herbaceous annual vine in the buckwheat family. If you&#8217;ve ever encountered it you will know where the name tearthumb comes from. It is native to Asia but has become naturalized throughout the area and is a serious pest. Think of bindeed on steroids and with seriously barbed stems but without interesting flowers. It <em>does<\/em> have interesting fruit, I have to admit. These little berries are less that 5mm across but they are such a clear, beautiful blue, I cannot help but enjoy them. That&#8217;s not to say I would ever consider growing this for the ornamental value of the berries, of course. But they are still pretty.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mile-a-minute vine, also known as devil&#8217;s tail and tearthumb, is an herbaceous annual vine in the buckwheat family. If you&#8217;ve ever encountered it you will know where the name tearthumb comes from. It is native to Asia but has become naturalized throughout the area and is a serious pest. Think of bindeed on steroids and &hellip; <a class=\"read-excerpt\" href=\"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=15832\">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":[110,1296,1293,1033,1295,1294,778],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15832"}],"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=15832"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15832\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15838,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15832\/revisions\/15838"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15832"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15832"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15832"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}