{"id":690,"date":"2006-11-28T08:46:58","date_gmt":"2006-11-28T15:46:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fireflyforest.net\/firefly\/2006\/11\/28\/harlequinbush\/"},"modified":"2006-11-28T08:46:58","modified_gmt":"2006-11-28T15:46:58","slug":"harlequinbush","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fireflyforest.net\/firefly\/2006\/11\/28\/harlequinbush\/","title":{"rendered":"Harlequinbush"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After several weeks of summer monsoon rains, the grass grows tall and lush in the upland areas around Tucson, especially to the south and east. I don&#8217;t much like walking through the tall, green grass in the late summer and early fall for fear of snakes and chiggers (my ankles are proof that we do get <a href=\"http:\/\/cals.arizona.edu\/urbanipm\/mites\/chiggermites.html\">chiggers in southern Arizona<\/a> at this time of year), but I spray myself with DEET and do it anyway because some of our most interesting wildflowers like <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fireflyforest.com\/flowers\/1148\/gaura-hexandra-harlequinbush\/\">Harlequinbush (Gaura hexandra)<\/a> can be found there.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/fireflyforest.net\/images\/firefly\/2006\/November\/Gaura-hexandra-2.jpg\" alt=\"Harlequinbush (Gaura hexandra)\" title=\"Harlequinbush (Gaura hexandra)\" width=\"400\" height=\"558\" class=\"post-photo\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Harlequinbush is in the Evening Primrose family (Onagraceae), and unlike the other members of this family with their characteristic four-petaled flowers, the flowers of Harlequinbush are often trimerous (having flower parts in sets of three). Harlequinbush flowers are on tall, slender stalks and have 3 or 4 bright pink, twisted petals and 3 or 4 pinkish, reflexed sepals.<\/p>\n<p>Despite their bright pink flowers, Harlequinbushes can be fairly inconspicuous amidst the tall grass, but they are actually quite common in these grassy upland areas.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After several weeks of summer monsoon rains, the grass grows tall and lush in the upland areas around Tucson, especially to the south and east. I don&#8217;t much like walking through the tall, green grass in the late summer and early fall for fear of snakes and chiggers (my ankles are proof that we do&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/fireflyforest.net\/firefly\/2006\/11\/28\/harlequinbush\/\" 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-690","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arizona-wild-plants"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fireflyforest.net\/firefly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/690","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=690"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fireflyforest.net\/firefly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/690\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fireflyforest.net\/firefly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=690"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fireflyforest.net\/firefly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=690"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fireflyforest.net\/firefly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=690"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}