{"id":5505,"date":"2013-12-06T15:40:50","date_gmt":"2013-12-06T07:40:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/?p=5505"},"modified":"2013-12-12T16:16:07","modified_gmt":"2013-12-12T08:16:07","slug":"last-flower-spring","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/2013\/12\/06\/last-flower-spring\/","title":{"rendered":"Last flower of Spring"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/20131115-012.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-5106\" alt=\"20131115 012\" src=\"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/20131115-012-300x199.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/20131115-012-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/20131115-012.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>I don&#8217;t remember seeing these last year, but we have quite a few around this year in the area of forest that was burnt in 2010. \u00a0It is the Blue-spike Milkwort (<em><a href=\"http:\/\/florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au\/browse\/profile\/4550\" target=\"_blank\">Comesperma calymega<\/a><\/em>). \u00a0Of the 32 species of <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Comesperma\" target=\"_blank\">Comesperma<\/a>\u00a0found in Australia, 21 occur in Western Australia. \u00a0 According to wikipedia: \u00a0<em>They are generally small shrubs, climbers or trailing plants, with small to vestigial leaves arranged alternately on the stem. The flowers resemble those of pea-flowers, and are borne in <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Raceme\" target=\"_blank\">racemes<\/a><\/em>\u00a0(arranged on a spike with older flowers at the bottom). \u00a0Although most had already set seeds, because of the rain <a href=\"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/2013\/11\/30\/900mm-rain\/\">last week<\/a> and<a href=\"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/2013\/11\/22\/november-rains\/\"> the week before<\/a>, a number have \u00a0produced another crop of flowers. It seems like they have been\u00a0flowering for a couple of months.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I don&#8217;t remember seeing these last year, but we have quite a few around this year in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5106,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[21,19,7],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/20131115-012.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5505"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5505"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5505\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5526,"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5505\/revisions\/5526"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5106"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5505"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5505"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5505"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}