{"id":15893,"date":"2016-06-04T17:15:30","date_gmt":"2016-06-04T17:15:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/?p=15893"},"modified":"2016-06-04T17:15:30","modified_gmt":"2016-06-04T17:15:30","slug":"lifestyle-plant-identification-from-field-guide-dovefoot-geranium","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/lifestyle-plant-identification-from-field-guide-dovefoot-geranium\/","title":{"rendered":"Lifestyle:  plant identification from field guide:  dovefoot geranium"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>The tutor shares another yard identification.<\/h1>\n<p>I weed the lawn, but only of erect-growing plants:  trailing weeds I generally leave.  Right now there is an attactive melange of low-growing, weedy plants at the back of the yard; among them is dovefoot geranium.<\/p>\n<p>Dovefoot geranium might be easy to miss.  Its pink flowers have petals only a few mm long.  There are five, but each one is grooved in half, so the flower appears to have ten petals.  The stems are spreading and rather untidy: a long one can branch here and there, the offshoots being different lengths and heading in different directions.<\/p>\n<p>An interesting feature of the dovefoot geranium is that, on the same plant, both fruits and flowers can be present simultaneously.  At least, that&#8217;s my observation.<\/p>\n<p>Source:<\/p>\n<p>Pojar, Jim and Andy MacKinnon.  <u>Plants of Coastal British Columbia<\/u>.  Vancouver:<br \/>&nbsp;&nbsp;BC Ministry of Forests and Lone Pine Publishing, 1994.<\/p>\n<p>Jack of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\">Oracle Tutoring by Jack and Diane,<\/a> Campbell River, BC.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The tutor shares another yard identification. I weed the lawn, but only of erect-growing plants: trailing weeds I generally leave. Right now there is an attactive melange of low-growing, weedy plants at the back of the yard; among them is &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/lifestyle-plant-identification-from-field-guide-dovefoot-geranium\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Lifestyle:  plant identification from field guide:  dovefoot geranium<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[779,181],"tags":[1638,1552],"class_list":["post-15893","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-botany","category-lifestyle","tag-dovefoot-geranium","tag-plant-identification-from-field-guide"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15893","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15893"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15893\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15905,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15893\/revisions\/15905"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15893"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15893"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15893"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}