{"id":1428,"date":"2014-06-06T14:56:04","date_gmt":"2014-06-06T14:56:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.cwf-fcf.org\/?p=1428"},"modified":"2016-10-14T14:56:43","modified_gmt":"2016-10-14T14:56:43","slug":"pretty-patterns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.cwf-fcf.org\/index.php\/en\/pretty-patterns\/","title":{"rendered":"Pretty Patterns"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_1431\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1431\" style=\"width: 640px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.cwf-fcf.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/prairie-smoke-640px-sc-3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1431\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.cwf-fcf.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/prairie-smoke-640px-sc-3-640x426.jpg\" alt=\"prairie smoke seed head\" width=\"640\" height=\"426\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.cwf-fcf.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/prairie-smoke-640px-sc-3-640x426.jpg 640w, https:\/\/blog.cwf-fcf.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/prairie-smoke-640px-sc-3.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1431\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">prairie smoke seed head<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>One of the things that caught my eye the other day was the neat way prairie smoke (<em>Geum triflorum<\/em>)\u00a0seed heads\u00a0develop. I love their whimsical plumes which gave them their other common name of &#8220;old man&#8217;s whiskers&#8221;&#8230;but I had never really noticed the spirals it forms along the way.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1430\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1430\" style=\"width: 640px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.cwf-fcf.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/prairie-smoke-640px-sc-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1430\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.cwf-fcf.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/prairie-smoke-640px-sc-2-640x426.jpg\" alt=\"prairie smoke seed head and flower - top view\" width=\"640\" height=\"426\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.cwf-fcf.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/prairie-smoke-640px-sc-2-640x426.jpg 640w, https:\/\/blog.cwf-fcf.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/prairie-smoke-640px-sc-2.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1430\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">prairie smoke seed head and flower &#8211; top view<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Here&#8217;s what they look like when fully opened (below):<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1432\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1432\" style=\"width: 640px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.cwf-fcf.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/prairie-smoke-640px-sc-4.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1432\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.cwf-fcf.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/prairie-smoke-640px-sc-4-640x427.jpg\" alt=\"prairie smoke seed head\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.cwf-fcf.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/prairie-smoke-640px-sc-4-640x427.jpg 640w, https:\/\/blog.cwf-fcf.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/prairie-smoke-640px-sc-4.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1432\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">prairie smoke seed head<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1433\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1433\" style=\"width: 640px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.cwf-fcf.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/prairie-smoke-640px-sc-5.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1433\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.cwf-fcf.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/prairie-smoke-640px-sc-5-640x426.jpg\" alt=\"prairie smoke seed head\" width=\"640\" height=\"426\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.cwf-fcf.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/prairie-smoke-640px-sc-5-640x426.jpg 640w, https:\/\/blog.cwf-fcf.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/prairie-smoke-640px-sc-5.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1433\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">prairie smoke seed head<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>These are the flowers, in case you were curious (below):<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1429\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1429\" style=\"width: 640px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.cwf-fcf.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/prairie-smoke-640px-sc-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1429\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.cwf-fcf.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/prairie-smoke-640px-sc-1-640x426.jpg\" alt=\"prairie smoke flowers\" width=\"640\" height=\"426\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.cwf-fcf.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/prairie-smoke-640px-sc-1-640x426.jpg 640w, https:\/\/blog.cwf-fcf.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/prairie-smoke-640px-sc-1.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1429\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">prairie smoke flowers<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>For more photos from our garden, check out our<a title=\"CWF Facebook Photo Album - our spring flowers\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/media\/set\/?set=a.10151213278359431.478326.7787249430&amp;type=3\" target=\"_blank\"> facebook photos here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>PHOTOS : [CWF]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"post-excerpt\">One of the things that caught my eye the other day was the neat way prairie smoke (Geum triflorum)\u00a0seed heads\u00a0develop. 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