{"id":2193,"date":"2011-07-04T15:00:47","date_gmt":"2011-07-04T22:00:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=2193"},"modified":"2011-07-04T16:03:24","modified_gmt":"2011-07-04T23:03:24","slug":"purple-yarrow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=2193","title":{"rendered":"Purple yarrow"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yarrow is a white wildflower\u2014well, it is usually white, but not always.<\/p>\n<p>Yarrow blooms in the summer across BC. Flowers are grouped in flat-topped clusters. Individual flowers are very small, with white petals and a yellowish center. Actually, what looks to be one of those single flowers is itself a composite of distinct male and female flowers. The female flowers form the yellow center; the surrounded five white petals form separate male flowers.<\/p>\n<p>Now and then\u2014rarely\u2014the male flowers are purple. The second picture shows this.<\/p>\n<p>The yarrow we all know.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2196\" onmousedown=\"return false\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/yarrow110702as.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The less common, purple yarrow.<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2198\" onmousedown=\"return false\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/yarrow110702bs.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Also seen yesterday, and included just for the fun of it, is a tiger lily.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2207\" onmousedown=\"return false\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/tigerlily110703s2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yarrow is a white wildflower\u2014well, it is usually white, but not always. Yarrow blooms in the summer across BC. Flowers are grouped in flat-topped clusters. Individual flowers are very small, with white petals and a yellowish center. Actually, what looks &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=2193\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2193","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-wildflowers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2193","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2193"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2193\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2212,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2193\/revisions\/2212"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2193"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2193"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2193"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}