{"id":22620,"date":"2023-03-26T15:10:11","date_gmt":"2023-03-26T20:10:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=22620"},"modified":"2023-04-11T12:02:02","modified_gmt":"2023-04-11T17:02:02","slug":"sanguinaria-canadensis-bloodroot-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=22620","title":{"rendered":"<em>Sanguinaria canadensis<\/em> (Bloodroot)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_22622\" style=\"width: 360px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/img_20230326_006997.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-22622\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/img_20230326_006997-350x233.jpg\" alt=\"Sanguinaria canadensis (Bloodroot)\" width=\"350\" height=\"233\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-22622\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/img_20230326_006997-350x233.jpg 350w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/img_20230326_006997-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/img_20230326_006997-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/img_20230326_006997-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/img_20230326_006997.jpg 1800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-22622\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>Sanguinaria canadensis<\/em> (Bloodroot)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Cathy and I were out in Poolesville today, to drop something off for someone. After that we decided to see if the bluebells have started blooming along Seneca Creek. It is definitely a bit early for the full show, but there was enough to see that we were glad we went. In addition to bluebells, which I&#8217;d say were somewhere around 5% open, there were trout lilies (<em>Erythronium americanum<\/em>), spring beauties (<em>Claytonia virginica<\/em>), and possibly my favorite spring ephemeral, bloodroot (<em>Sanguinaria canadensis<\/em>). They bloom very briefly and the flowers are very delicate, so seeing them at their peak is a real treat. Outside their short blooming period they are easily identified by their deeply-scalloped, palmate leaves, but you have to keep your eyes open, because they aren&#8217;t very flashy. The flowers are pure white, as you can see here, with beautiful, yellow stamens.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cathy and I were out in Poolesville today, to drop something off for someone. After that we decided to see if the bluebells have started blooming along Seneca Creek. It is definitely a bit early for the full show, but there was enough to see that we were glad we went. In addition to bluebells, &hellip; <a class=\"read-excerpt\" href=\"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=22620\">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":[2341,1654,32,2340,2339,479,478],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22620"}],"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=22620"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22620\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22623,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22620\/revisions\/22623"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22620"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22620"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22620"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}