{"id":18610,"date":"2020-03-09T14:05:39","date_gmt":"2020-03-09T19:05:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=18610"},"modified":"2020-03-11T18:00:31","modified_gmt":"2020-03-11T23:00:31","slug":"ficaria-verna","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=18610","title":{"rendered":"<em>Ficaria verna<\/em>"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_18612\" style=\"width: 360px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/img_20200309_174431.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-18612\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/img_20200309_174431-350x233.jpg\" alt=\"Ficaria verna\" width=\"350\" height=\"233\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-18612\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/img_20200309_174431-350x233.jpg 350w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/img_20200309_174431-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/img_20200309_174431-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/img_20200309_174431-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/img_20200309_174431.jpg 1800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-18612\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>Ficaria verna<\/em><\/p><\/div>\n<p>This is <em>Ficaria verna<\/em>, formerly known as <em>Ranunculus ficaria<\/em>, commonly called the fig buttercup or lesser celandine. It is a weed and is listed as a noxious weed by a bunch of states and banned in at least two. It&#8217;s growing wild in the area around the pond next to my building. I&#8217;ve had enough experience with invasive weeds that I understand the desire to keep them out so I wouldn&#8217;t ever plant this. Nevertheless, I can appreciate the beautiful, bright yellow flowers. It is a tuberous rooted, herbaceous perennial native to western and central Asia and Europe. After flowering, the leaves die back by early summer and the plant goes dormant until the next spring.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is Ficaria verna, formerly known as Ranunculus ficaria, commonly called the fig buttercup or lesser celandine. It is a weed and is listed as a noxious weed by a bunch of states and banned in at least two. It&#8217;s growing wild in the area around the pond next to my building. I&#8217;ve had enough &hellip; <a class=\"read-excerpt\" href=\"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=18610\">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":[2292,2291,2293,1654,2294,2295,778,68],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18610"}],"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=18610"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18610\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18614,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18610\/revisions\/18614"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18610"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18610"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18610"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}