{"id":6362,"date":"2011-08-08T13:48:34","date_gmt":"2011-08-08T20:48:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dev-clm-blog.pantheonsite.io\/?p=6362"},"modified":"2011-08-08T13:48:34","modified_gmt":"2011-08-08T20:48:34","slug":"the-desert-is-green","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.clminternship.org\/?p=6362","title":{"rendered":"The desert is green!"},"content":{"rendered":"<div dir=\"ltr\"><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Tahoma; font-size: x-small;\">The summer  rains have brought a welcomed green color to the desert! We have been  monitoring several BLM sites in the hopes to find grasses in flower and  we have finally had some success! \ud83d\ude42 Finding  flowering grasses also means trying to identify species! We are  beginning to get a lot of practice using ligule keys! I wish I would  have paid more attention during those grass labs in taxonomy! With in  the next few weeks we are planning on making some of  our first collections for the summer! In\u00a0May and June\u00a0all we saw was  last years growth.\u00a0The rains in early July\u00a0caused some new growth\u00a0to  start and now in early\u00a0August we are seeing flowers. I&#8217;m super excited  to finally see the whole cycle of life in the desert.<\/span><\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Tahoma; font-size: x-small;\">With the grasses we have also found a variety of beautiful forbs! The diversity of species is simply amazing in the desert!<\/span><\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Tahoma; font-size: x-small;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><span style=\"font-family: tahoma;\"><em>Aristolochia watsonii <\/em><\/span><span style=\"font-family: tahoma;\"><em>(<\/em>Dutchmens pipe)<\/span><\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dev-clm-blog.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/IMG_0205.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-6424\" src=\"https:\/\/dev-clm-blog.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/IMG_0205-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.clminternship.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/IMG_0205-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/blog.clminternship.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/IMG_0205-768x1024.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><span style=\"font-family: tahoma;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><em>Proboscidea<\/em> <em>althaeifolia<\/em><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><span style=\"font-family: tahoma;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dev-clm-blog.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/IMG_0170.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-6423\" src=\"https:\/\/dev-clm-blog.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/IMG_0170-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.clminternship.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/IMG_0170-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/blog.clminternship.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/IMG_0170-768x1024.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The summer rains have brought a welcomed green color to the desert! We have been monitoring several BLM sites in the hopes to find grasses in flower and we have finally had some success! \ud83d\ude42 Finding flowering grasses also means &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.clminternship.org\/?p=6362\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1015,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.clminternship.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6362"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.clminternship.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.clminternship.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.clminternship.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1015"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.clminternship.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6362"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blog.clminternship.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6362\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6607,"href":"https:\/\/blog.clminternship.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6362\/revisions\/6607"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.clminternship.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6362"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.clminternship.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6362"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.clminternship.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6362"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}