{"id":16916,"date":"2019-04-29T12:37:14","date_gmt":"2019-04-29T16:37:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=16916"},"modified":"2019-04-30T10:42:17","modified_gmt":"2019-04-30T14:42:17","slug":"veronica-arvensis-corn-speedwell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=16916","title":{"rendered":"<em>Veronica arvensis<\/em> (Corn Speedwell)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_16918\" style=\"width: 360px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/img_20190429_164499.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-16918\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/img_20190429_164499-350x233.jpg\" alt=\"Veronica arvensis (Corn Speedwell)\" width=\"350\" height=\"233\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-16918\" data-wp-pid=\"16918\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/img_20190429_164499-350x233.jpg 350w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/img_20190429_164499-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/img_20190429_164499-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/img_20190429_164499-800x533.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/img_20190429_164499-600x400.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/img_20190429_164499.jpg 1800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-16918\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>Veronica arvensis<\/em> (Corn Speedwell)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>It was a beautiful day and I took the opportunity to go out and take a few pictures in the empty lot next to my office. Although we had a lot of rain this winter and early in the spring, April has been relatively drier than usual (at least that&#8217;s how if feels, I haven&#8217;t checked the actual data). Nevertheless, the drainage pond that is usually dry in the summer was about has high as it can be without the entire upper area being a bog. In a slightly higher part of the area I found quite a bit of this little corn speedwell (<em>Veronica arvensis<\/em>) growing. It&#8217;s a native to Europe and has been introduced widely in North America (according to the US Department of Agriculture, it can be found in every state except North Dakota, and I wouldn&#8217;t be surprised if it&#8217;s actually there, too. The blooms are quite small, only about a quarter inch across, and are a lovely blue color. As weeds go, there are worse.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It was a beautiful day and I took the opportunity to go out and take a few pictures in the empty lot next to my office. Although we had a lot of rain this winter and early in the spring, April has been relatively drier than usual (at least that&#8217;s how if feels, I haven&#8217;t &hellip; <a class=\"read-excerpt\" href=\"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=16916\">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":[908,1673,1358,1674,1672,1671,1670,778,605],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16916"}],"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=16916"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16916\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16920,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16916\/revisions\/16920"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16916"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16916"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16916"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}