{"id":8325,"date":"2013-07-13T09:11:27","date_gmt":"2013-07-13T16:11:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=8325"},"modified":"2013-07-13T14:54:49","modified_gmt":"2013-07-13T21:54:49","slug":"four-wildflowers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=8325","title":{"rendered":"Four wildflowers +"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Two forest walks, yesterday, revealed the following delights.<\/p>\n<p>The Twinflower is found in the boreal woods of both the East and West Hemispheres. It was adopted as the personal emblem of Carl Linnaeus (1707-78), the\u00a0Swedish\u00a0founder of the modern system of naming species.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-8326\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/twinflower130712s.jpg\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Also found in both hemispheres is the Pipsissewa, named from a Cree word meaning: it breaks into small pieces. The flower also is known as the Prince&#8217;s Pine, the origin of which I do not know.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-8331\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/pipsissewa130712s5.jpg\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Inconspicuous, but lovely is the tiny Golden Clover. A plant from Europe, it is naturalized\u00a0in North America.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-8327\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/goldenclover130712s.jpg\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Found only in western North America is the (Columbia) Tiger Lily. It can be quite conspicuous in forest clearings.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-8330\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/tigerlily130712s1.jpg\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Although not a flower, this juvenile Great Blue Heron stopped by, and so just had to be included.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-8328\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/heron130710s.jpg\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Two forest walks, yesterday, revealed the following delights. The Twinflower is found in the boreal woods of both the East and West Hemispheres. It was adopted as the personal emblem of Carl Linnaeus (1707-78), the\u00a0Swedish\u00a0founder of the modern system &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=8325\">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":[9,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8325","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-birds","category-wildflowers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8325","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=8325"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8325\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8336,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8325\/revisions\/8336"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8325"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8325"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8325"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}