{"id":123,"date":"2012-02-07T13:57:12","date_gmt":"2012-02-07T18:57:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/indianaplants\/?p=123"},"modified":"2012-03-06T12:12:12","modified_gmt":"2012-03-06T17:12:12","slug":"plants-blooming-on-ground-hog-day-2011","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/indianaplants\/2012\/02\/07\/plants-blooming-on-ground-hog-day-2011\/","title":{"rendered":"Plants blooming on Ground Hog Day, 2012"},"content":{"rendered":"

I looked for harbinger-of-spring (Erigenia bulbosa<\/em>, aka salt and pepper) in the Butler University woods but couldn\u2019t find it yet.\u00a0 Some years it sticks flowers up through the snow around the last year\u2019s decomposing tree leaves.\u00a0 I did, however, find the reliable early February bloomer whitlow grass (Draba\u00a0verna<\/em>).<\/p>\n

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Rosettes of whitlow grass are the size of a quarter.<\/p><\/div>\n

\u00a0 This tiny mustard grows in a couple of places in sparse lawn on campus.\u00a0 It is a native of Europe that I have read was used to treat inflammation of the toes or toenail fungus, whitlow, in England.\u00a0 Maybe it was brought here intentionally.\u00a0 It is a winter annual, germinating and forming a rosette of leaves in the fall and flowering in the early spring, setting seed and dying.\u00a0 It persists through the summer as seed, starting the cycle again in the fall.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database \/ Britton, N.L., and A. Brown. 1913. An illustrated flora of the northern United States, Canada and the British Possessions. 3 vols. Charles Scribner's Sons, New York. Vol. 2: 148.<\/p><\/div>\n

If you use a hand lens you can see the classic cruciform, or cross shaped arrangement of the 4 petals and two short, four long stamens found in the mustard family.<\/p>\n

A speedwell was also blooming on Ground Hog Day this year in the warmth of the sunny base of the Science building at Butler University, Gallahue Hall.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I looked for harbinger-of-spring (Erigenia bulbosa, aka salt and pepper) in the Butler University woods but couldn\u2019t find it yet.\u00a0 Some years it sticks flowers up through the snow around the last year\u2019s decomposing tree leaves.\u00a0 I did, however, find … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":679,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-123","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/indianaplants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/indianaplants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/indianaplants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/indianaplants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/679"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/indianaplants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=123"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/indianaplants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":134,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/indianaplants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123\/revisions\/134"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/indianaplants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=123"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/indianaplants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=123"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/indianaplants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=123"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}