{"id":3656,"date":"2013-06-22T23:25:24","date_gmt":"2013-06-23T04:25:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=3656"},"modified":"2013-06-23T21:50:34","modified_gmt":"2013-06-24T02:50:34","slug":"echinacea-purpurea-powwow-white","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=3656","title":{"rendered":"<em>Echinacea purpurea<\/em> \u2018PowWow White\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_3657\" style=\"width: 243px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/img_20130622_061664.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3657\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/img_20130622_061664-233x350.jpg\" alt=\"Echinacea purpurea \u2018PowWow White\u2019\" width=\"233\" height=\"350\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-3657\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/img_20130622_061664-233x350.jpg 233w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/img_20130622_061664-682x1024.jpg 682w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/img_20130622_061664-400x600.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/img_20130622_061664-800x1200.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/img_20130622_061664.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 233px) 100vw, 233px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-3657\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>Echinacea purpurea<\/em> \u2018PowWow White\u2019<\/p><\/div>\n<p>I did take some more pictures of bees today but they are enough like yesterday&#8217;s picture that I won&#8217;t bore you with them. We happened to stop at the American Plant Food garden center on River Road today. While Cathy shopped, I took a few pictures, both of bees and of flowers (and sometimes both, obviously). This is a coneflower that, despite it&#8217;s specific name, is not purple. At the variety name indicates, it&#8217;s white. I do like coneflowers. <\/p>\n<p>Their generic name, <em>Echinacea<\/em> comes from the Greek word meaning &#x201c;sea urchin,&#x201d; from the appearance of the center of the flower. What you might consider to be their petals are actually bracts surrounding the compound flower or inflorescence. The bracts tend to get chewed up a bit by insects so it&#8217;s sometimes hard to find particularly photogenic examples. This one, however, is quite nice and I very much like the pure white bracts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I did take some more pictures of bees today but they are enough like yesterday&#8217;s picture that I won&#8217;t bore you with them. We happened to stop at the American Plant Food garden center on River Road today. While Cathy shopped, I took a few pictures, both of bees and of flowers (and sometimes both, &hellip; <a class=\"read-excerpt\" href=\"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=3656\">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":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3656"}],"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=3656"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3656\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3661,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3656\/revisions\/3661"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3656"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3656"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3656"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}