{"id":317,"date":"2021-05-24T08:08:51","date_gmt":"2021-05-24T12:08:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mattcrandall.com\/wordpress\/?p=317"},"modified":"2021-05-24T19:47:14","modified_gmt":"2021-05-24T23:47:14","slug":"atlantic-camus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mattcrandall.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2021\/05\/24\/atlantic-camus\/","title":{"rendered":"Atlantic Camus"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>My plant-lore is not nearly as developed as my bird-lore or butterfly-lore.  This wildflower was seen at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.loraincountymetroparks.com\/schoepfle-garden\">Schoepfle Garden<\/a> along the banks of the Vermilion River, and I had no idea what it was.  So I put some observational skills to work and did a web search for &#8220;light blue spring wildflower with six petals with a yellow stamen.&#8221;  (I should have added &#8220;and a green center&#8221; but I did not notice it until afterwards.)  This led me in the right general direction with a near-miss, the Great Camas.  However, the Great Camas is only found on the West Coast, so a further refinement of the search for &#8220;Eastern United States&#8221; turned up the likely winner, &#8220;Atlantic Camas a.k.a. Wild Hyacinth.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It&#8217;s very pretty, and it had filled up the river valley around Schoepfle with waves of azure.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/mattcrandall.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/IMGP0035-2021-05-23-Schoepfle-Garden-Atlantic-Camus-Wild-Hyacinth.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/mattcrandall.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/IMGP0035-2021-05-23-Schoepfle-Garden-Atlantic-Camus-Wild-Hyacinth-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-318\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mattcrandall.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/IMGP0035-2021-05-23-Schoepfle-Garden-Atlantic-Camus-Wild-Hyacinth-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/mattcrandall.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/IMGP0035-2021-05-23-Schoepfle-Garden-Atlantic-Camus-Wild-Hyacinth-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/mattcrandall.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/IMGP0035-2021-05-23-Schoepfle-Garden-Atlantic-Camus-Wild-Hyacinth-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/mattcrandall.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/IMGP0035-2021-05-23-Schoepfle-Garden-Atlantic-Camus-Wild-Hyacinth-1536x1025.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/mattcrandall.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/IMGP0035-2021-05-23-Schoepfle-Garden-Atlantic-Camus-Wild-Hyacinth-1568x1046.jpg 1568w, https:\/\/mattcrandall.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/IMGP0035-2021-05-23-Schoepfle-Garden-Atlantic-Camus-Wild-Hyacinth.jpg 1680w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My plant-lore is not nearly as developed as my bird-lore or butterfly-lore. This wildflower was seen at Schoepfle Garden along the banks of the Vermilion River, and I had no idea what it was. So I put some observational skills to work and did a web search for &#8220;light blue spring wildflower with six petals &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/mattcrandall.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2021\/05\/24\/atlantic-camus\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Atlantic Camus&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[74],"tags":[76,75,78,77],"class_list":["post-317","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plants","tag-camus","tag-hyacinth","tag-spring","tag-wildflower","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattcrandall.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattcrandall.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattcrandall.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattcrandall.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattcrandall.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=317"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mattcrandall.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":320,"href":"https:\/\/mattcrandall.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317\/revisions\/320"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattcrandall.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=317"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattcrandall.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=317"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattcrandall.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=317"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}