{"id":18593,"date":"2020-03-05T14:41:39","date_gmt":"2020-03-05T19:41:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=18593"},"modified":"2020-03-09T12:22:29","modified_gmt":"2020-03-09T17:22:29","slug":"veronica-persica-persian-speedwell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=18593","title":{"rendered":"<em>Veronica persica<\/em> (Persian Speedwell)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_18595\" style=\"width: 360px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/img_20200305_174363.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-18595\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/img_20200305_174363-350x233.jpg\" alt=\"Veronica persica (Persian Speedwell)\" width=\"350\" height=\"233\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-18595\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/img_20200305_174363-350x233.jpg 350w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/img_20200305_174363-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/img_20200305_174363-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/img_20200305_174363-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/img_20200305_174363.jpg 1800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-18595\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>Veronica persica<\/em> (Persian Speedwell)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>I went outside today in the early afternoon and walked to the empty lot next to my building. It still looks mostly brown but there are little bits of color if you look hard enough. The seedling pears are just about to start blooming and there is a small amount of pink in their otherwise white buds. The hairy bittercress (<em>Cardamine hirsuta<\/em>) is starting to bloom everywhere. Those flowers are white and not terribly conspicuous. Even less conspicuous because they are so small are the beautiful, tiny blue flowers of Persian speedwell (<em>Veronica persica<\/em>, also known as bird\u2019s-Eye speedwell). You really have to look for them, but once you start to see them, you&#8217;ll notice them everywhere.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I went outside today in the early afternoon and walked to the empty lot next to my building. It still looks mostly brown but there are little bits of color if you look hard enough. The seedling pears are just about to start blooming and there is a small amount of pink in their otherwise &hellip; <a class=\"read-excerpt\" href=\"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=18593\">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":[908,2281,1358,2280,1672,1671,2279,778],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18593"}],"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=18593"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18593\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18596,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18593\/revisions\/18596"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18593"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18593"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18593"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}