{"id":25177,"date":"2026-06-04T14:06:32","date_gmt":"2026-06-04T19:06:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=25177"},"modified":"2026-06-18T14:32:04","modified_gmt":"2026-06-18T19:32:04","slug":"wild-petunia-ruellia-strepens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=25177","title":{"rendered":"Wild Petunia (<em>Ruellia strepens<\/em>)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_25179\" style=\"width: 360px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/img_20260604_031035.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-25179\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/img_20260604_031035-350x233.jpg\" alt=\"Wild Petunia (Ruellia strepens)\" width=\"350\" height=\"233\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-25179\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/img_20260604_031035-350x233.jpg 350w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/img_20260604_031035-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/img_20260604_031035-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/img_20260604_031035-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/img_20260604_031035.jpg 1800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-25179\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Wild Petunia (<em>Ruellia strepens<\/em>)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>We went to return a bunch of buckets and vases, etc., to the florist for Dorothy&#8217;s wedding. If you are in Montgomery County, Maryland or anywhere nearby and are looking for flowers, I can recommend <a href=\"https:\/\/sungoldflowerco.com\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sungold Flower Company<\/a>. She&#8217;s a friend of the family and especially of Dorothy, so she was willing to drive to southern Pennsylvania for us, but I cannot speak for how far she&#8217;d generally go. But give them a call.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, after dropping those off, we walked along Dry Seneca Creek from near where Montevideo Road crosses it, downstream towards Seneca Creek. I only took a few photos. Although we heard a few birds, we never saw more than a glimpse of anything. I did take this photo so I could try to identify the flower. I believe it is a wild petuna (<em>Ruellia strepens<\/em>), although I&#8217;m not entirely certain of that (and I&#8217;d be happy to be corrected).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We went to return a bunch of buckets and vases, etc., to the florist for Dorothy&#8217;s wedding. If you are in Montgomery County, Maryland or anywhere nearby and are looking for flowers, I can recommend Sungold Flower Company. She&#8217;s a friend of the family and especially of Dorothy, so she was willing to drive to &hellip; <a class=\"read-excerpt\" href=\"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=25177\">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":[3871,3870,3869,605],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25177"}],"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=25177"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25177\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25180,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25177\/revisions\/25180"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25177"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25177"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25177"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}