{"id":199,"date":"2005-07-07T08:01:00","date_gmt":"2005-07-07T12:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scriniary.smallinfinity.net\/blog\/2005\/07\/07\/puccoon-thimbleweed-and-the-usda-plants-database\/"},"modified":"2005-07-07T08:01:00","modified_gmt":"2005-07-07T12:01:00","slug":"puccoon-thimbleweed-and-the-usda-plants-database","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elizabethshack.com\/blog\/2005\/07\/07\/puccoon-thimbleweed-and-the-usda-plants-database\/","title":{"rendered":"Puccoon, Thimbleweed, and the USDA Plants Database"},"content":{"rendered":"

Today we visited the Girdham Dunes, hunting for puccoon and thimbleweed. I think the links I have go to the correct varieties of each:<\/p>\n

Plains Puccoon<\/a>, or Lithospermum caroliniense (Walt. ex J.F. Gmel.) MacM<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Prairie Thimbleweed, or Anemone cylindrica<\/a><\/p>\n

In googling, I discovered the very useful National PLANTS Database<\/a>. (Ohio plants at http:\/\/plants.usda.gov:8080\/plants\/\/ThreatenedServlet?statelist=states&qryon=sciname&stateSelect=39<\/a>)<\/p>\n

Non-plant sightings:
\nA tree frog. A very patient tree frog: the two people with me used their camera phones.
\nA bluebird on the road while I was driving away. I didn’t get a good look at all, but I don’t think we have any other birds here that are that blue.
\nAn Eastern Towhee<\/a> eating the blackberries on the dunes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Today we visited the Girdham Dunes, hunting for puccoon and thimbleweed. I think the links I have go to the correct varieties of each: Plains Puccoon, or Lithospermum caroliniense (Walt. ex J.F. Gmel.) MacM. Prairie Thimbleweed, or Anemone cylindrica In … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-199","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-outdoors"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/elizabethshack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/elizabethshack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/elizabethshack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elizabethshack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elizabethshack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=199"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/elizabethshack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elizabethshack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=199"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elizabethshack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=199"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elizabethshack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}