{"id":2094,"date":"2010-04-09T17:22:18","date_gmt":"2010-04-09T22:22:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/192.168.1.5\/gardens\/gardenlog\/?p=2094"},"modified":"2018-03-14T19:19:00","modified_gmt":"2018-03-15T00:19:00","slug":"texas-dandelion-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/gardens\/plant-highlights\/texas-dandelion-update\/","title":{"rendered":"Texas Dandelion"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4>Dateline: 2006<\/h4>\n<p><!-- 2006-04-20 -->You&#8217;ll think me a poor gardener when I admit that I didn&#8217;t even recognize a dandelion.<\/p>\n<p><img src=\"http:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/gardens\/photos\/320\/TexasDandelion1.jpg\" alt=\"photo: Texas Dandelion\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The other morning this bright spot of yellow caught my eye and I acquainted myself with this graceful, yellow flower. Consulting Marshall Enquist&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/gardens\/essays\/books.html#enquist\">Wildflowers of the Texas Hill Country<\/a>, I find that it is Texas dandelion, <i>Pyrrhopappus multicaulis<\/i>, also known as manystem false dandelion.<\/p>\n<p>As Karel Capek says in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/gardens\/essays\/books.html#capek\">The Gardener&#8217;s Year<\/a>, &#8220;A flower without a name is a weed, a flower with a Latin name is somehow raised to a state of dignity. If a nettle grows on your bed, label it &#8220;Urtica dioica&#8221; and you will respect it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><img src=\"http:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/gardens\/photos\/320\/TexasDandelion2.jpg\" alt=\"photo: Texas Dandelion\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The leaves do look like a dandelion&#8217;s, but it has a multiple stems almost 18 inches tall.<\/p>\n<p><img src=\"http:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/gardens\/photos\/320\/TexasDandelion3.jpg\" alt=\"photo: Texas Dandelion\" \/><\/p>\n<p>One source said that it is distinguished from the common by the having leaves along the stems. The dark anthers also sets it apart.<\/p>\n<p>Two different sources say that it is a cool-weather annual. I&#8217;m glad it chose this week of record highs to bloom. I don&#8217;t care if it is a dandelion, or merely a false one, I think it&#8217;s lovely.<\/p>\n<p><img src=\"http:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/gardens\/photos\/400\/TexasDandelion5.jpg\" alt=\"photo: Texas Dandelion\" \/><br \/><i>2010-04-22. Texas dandelion going to seed<\/i> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img src=\"http:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/gardens\/photos\/400\/TexasDandelion4.jpg\" alt=\"photo: Texas Dandelion\" \/><br \/><i>2010-04-09. First flower, Texas dandelion. This is the first time it&#8217;s bloomed in 4 years. With all the rain this winter it is bigger and better than ever.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[14],"tags":[390,476],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/gardens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2094"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/gardens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/gardens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/gardens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/gardens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2094"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/gardens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2094\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5673,"href":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/gardens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2094\/revisions\/5673"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/gardens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2094"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/gardens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2094"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/gardens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2094"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}