{"id":20469,"date":"2021-06-16T16:46:23","date_gmt":"2021-06-16T21:46:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=20469"},"modified":"2021-06-18T21:21:15","modified_gmt":"2021-06-19T02:21:15","slug":"eutrochium-purpureum-joe-pye-weed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=20469","title":{"rendered":"<em>Eutrochium purpureum<\/em> (Joe Pye Weed)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_20471\" style=\"width: 360px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/img_20210616_183433.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-20471\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/img_20210616_183433-350x233.jpg\" alt=\"Eutrochium purpureum (Joe Pye Weed) \" width=\"350\" height=\"233\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-20471\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/img_20210616_183433-350x233.jpg 350w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/img_20210616_183433-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/img_20210616_183433-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/img_20210616_183433-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/img_20210616_183433.jpg 1800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-20471\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>Eutrochium purpureum<\/em> (Joe Pye Weed)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>I stopped at the Croyden Creek Nature Center on the way home, figuring there might be something to photograph there. The swamp milkweed (<em>Asclepias incarnata<\/em>) was just starting to bloom and I took a few pictures of that with bees on it. Around the other side of the nature center there was some Joe Pye weed (<em>Eutrochium purpureum<\/em>) coming up. It&#8217;s a native, herbaceous perennial and I find it sort of humorous that garden centers actually are able to sell it, since it grows wild around here. I don&#8217;t know who Joe Pye was but I&#8217;ve seen one story that he was a Native American medicine man who used the plant for various treatments. Anyway, I was attracted to the symmetry of the leaves and the way the light was shining on them at the top of the stem.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I stopped at the Croyden Creek Nature Center on the way home, figuring there might be something to photograph there. The swamp milkweed (Asclepias incarnata) was just starting to bloom and I took a few pictures of that with bees on it. Around the other side of the nature center there was some Joe Pye &hellip; <a class=\"read-excerpt\" href=\"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=20469\">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":[2831,2832,153,1018,1654,2833,32,723,1269],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20469"}],"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=20469"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20469\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20472,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20469\/revisions\/20472"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20469"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20469"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20469"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}