{"id":620,"date":"2006-08-18T11:07:09","date_gmt":"2006-08-18T18:07:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fireflyforest.net\/firefly\/2006\/08\/18\/common-cowparsnip\/"},"modified":"2010-05-23T11:35:45","modified_gmt":"2010-05-23T21:35:45","slug":"common-cowparsnip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fireflyforest.net\/firefly\/2006\/08\/18\/common-cowparsnip\/","title":{"rendered":"Common Cowparsnip"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Along with <a href=\"https:\/\/fireflyforest.net\/firefly\/2005\/07\/19\/elkweed\/\">Elkweed (Frasera speciosa)<\/a>, another giant mountain wildflower can be found here in Arizona, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fireflyforest.com\/flowers\/2699\/heracleum-maximum-common-cowparsnip\/\">Common Cowparsnip (Heracleum maximum)<\/a>. Common Cowparsnips can reach 8 feet (2.4 m) tall, and their large leaves are ternate with three maple-like main lobes.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/fireflyforest.net\/images\/firefly\/2006\/August\/Heracleum-maximum.jpg\" alt=\"Common Cowparsnip (Heracleum maximum)\" title=\"Common Cowparsnip (Heracleum maximum)\" width=\"400\" height=\"527\" class=\"post-photo\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Like other plants in the Carrot Family (Apiaceae), Common Cowparsnip flowers are in umbels at the top of hollow stems, but its flower umbels are unusually large, from 6 to 12 inches (15 to 30 cm) across.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/fireflyforest.net\/images\/firefly\/2006\/August\/Heracleum-maximum-3.jpg\" alt=\"Common Cowparsnip (Heracleum maximum)\" title=\"Common Cowparsnip (Heracleum maximum)\" width=\"480\" height=\"388\" class=\"post-photo\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The white flowers are followed by attractive, flowerlike umbels of developing green seeds.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/fireflyforest.net\/images\/firefly\/2006\/August\/Heracleum-maximum-2.jpg\" alt=\"Common Cowparsnip (Heracleum maximum)\" title=\"Common Cowparsnip (Heracleum maximum)\" width=\"480\" height=\"334\" class=\"post-photo\" \/><\/p>\n<p>These native perennials bloom in the summer and are quite common in and around the town of Summerhaven in the Santa Catalina Mountains near Tucson.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Along with Elkweed (Frasera speciosa), another giant mountain wildflower can be found here in Arizona, the Common Cowparsnip (Heracleum maximum). Common Cowparsnips can reach 8 feet (2.4 m) tall, and their large leaves are ternate with three maple-like main lobes. Like other plants in the Carrot Family (Apiaceae), Common Cowparsnip flowers are in umbels at&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/fireflyforest.net\/firefly\/2006\/08\/18\/common-cowparsnip\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read More &rarr; <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-620","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arizona-wild-plants"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fireflyforest.net\/firefly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/620","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fireflyforest.net\/firefly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fireflyforest.net\/firefly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fireflyforest.net\/firefly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fireflyforest.net\/firefly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=620"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/fireflyforest.net\/firefly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/620\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1155,"href":"https:\/\/fireflyforest.net\/firefly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/620\/revisions\/1155"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fireflyforest.net\/firefly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=620"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fireflyforest.net\/firefly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=620"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fireflyforest.net\/firefly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=620"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}