{"id":6463,"date":"2015-02-17T19:00:13","date_gmt":"2015-02-18T02:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/2015\/02\/17\/desert-marigold\/"},"modified":"2015-02-17T19:00:13","modified_gmt":"2015-02-18T02:00:13","slug":"desert-marigold","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/2015\/02\/17\/desert-marigold\/","title":{"rendered":"Desert Marigold"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href='http:\/\/capnbob.us\/graphics\/imageview.php?image=http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/marigold.jpg' title='Desert Marigold'><img src='http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/marigold.jpg' alt='Desert Marigold' width='550' \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>We were out along the side of the driveway this afternoon, trimming up some of the unwanted shrubbery and a cats paw tree. I always bring my camera so I can get a before and after photo of our work, which I did, but those will be for another time.<\/p>\n<p>What attracted my attention was our first wild Desert Marigold of the spring has opened up the hill a few steps from where we were working. I walked up and took the above photo of the new flower. Even though it&#8217;s only the middle of February, we have seen this and other desert wildflowers in bloom.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s an excerpt and a link to the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Baileya_%28plant%29\">Wikipedia article on this flower<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Baileya (the desert marigolds) is a genus of plants in the aster family <em>Asteraceae<\/em>. All are native to the southwestern United States and to Mexico.<\/p>\n<p>They are typically annual, though B. multiradiata may be perennial. The leaves, which may range from being entire to deeply lobed, mostly occur in a basal cluster. From this arises several flower stems, up to 18 inches (50 cm) in height, usually carrying a single yellow radiate flower each, although B. pauciradiata may have 2-3 flowers on a stem.<\/p>\n<p>Desert marigolds typically have their main bloom in the spring, extending through July. Summer thunderstorms may enable a second bloom in October and even into November.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We were out along the side of the driveway this afternoon, trimming up some of the unwanted shrubbery and a cats paw tree. I always bring&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[70,72,49,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6463","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arizona","category-flowers","category-home-garden","category-photography"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6463","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6463"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6463\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6463"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6463"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6463"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}