{"id":83,"date":"2017-07-16T14:03:11","date_gmt":"2017-07-16T19:03:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mcgerik.com\/homestead\/?p=83"},"modified":"2018-04-07T09:28:08","modified_gmt":"2018-04-07T14:28:08","slug":"purple-coneflower-echinacea-angustifolia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mcgerik.com\/homestead\/2017\/07\/16\/purple-coneflower-echinacea-angustifolia\/","title":{"rendered":"Purple Coneflower (Echinacea angustifolia)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Five years ago, we planted a small native wildflower garden in our back yard. Every year we add more native wild flowers. One of the first plants we planted was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.minnesotawildflowers.info\/flower\/narrow-leaved-purple-coneflower\" target=\"_blank\">Purple Coneflower (Echinacea angustifolia)<\/a>. They have established themselves and are slowly spreading.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mcgerik.com\/homestead\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/IMG_9819.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/mcgerik.com\/homestead\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/IMG_9819-1024x1007.jpg\" alt=\"Picture of Purple Coneflower (Echinacea angustifolia)\" width=\"840\" height=\"826\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-80\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mcgerik.com\/homestead\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/IMG_9819-1024x1007.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/mcgerik.com\/homestead\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/IMG_9819-300x295.jpg 300w, https:\/\/mcgerik.com\/homestead\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/IMG_9819-768x756.jpg 768w, https:\/\/mcgerik.com\/homestead\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/IMG_9819.jpg 1417w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mcgerik.com\/homestead\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/IMG_9823.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/mcgerik.com\/homestead\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/IMG_9823-791x1024.jpg\" alt=\"Picture of Purple Coneflowers (Echinacea angustifolia)\" width=\"791\" height=\"1024\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-81\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mcgerik.com\/homestead\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/IMG_9823-791x1024.jpg 791w, https:\/\/mcgerik.com\/homestead\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/IMG_9823-232x300.jpg 232w, https:\/\/mcgerik.com\/homestead\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/IMG_9823-768x995.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mcgerik.com\/homestead\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/IMG_9825_60.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/mcgerik.com\/homestead\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/IMG_9825_60-1024x823.jpg\" alt=\"Picture of Purple Coneflowers (Echinacea angustifolia)\" width=\"840\" height=\"675\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-103\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mcgerik.com\/homestead\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/IMG_9825_60-1024x823.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/mcgerik.com\/homestead\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/IMG_9825_60-300x241.jpg 300w, https:\/\/mcgerik.com\/homestead\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/IMG_9825_60-768x617.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A frequent visitor to the coneflowers are <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Monarch_butterfly\">Monarch butterflies (Danaus plexippus)<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><p><a href=\"https:\/\/mcgerik.com\/homestead\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/IMG_7936.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/mcgerik.com\/homestead\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/IMG_7936.jpg\" alt=\"Picture of two monarch butterflies\" width=\"568\" height=\"629\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-86\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mcgerik.com\/homestead\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/IMG_7936.jpg 568w, https:\/\/mcgerik.com\/homestead\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/IMG_7936-271x300.jpg 271w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 568px) 85vw, 568px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mcgerik.com\/homestead\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/IMG_7933.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/mcgerik.com\/homestead\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/IMG_7933.jpg\" alt=\"Picture of a Monarch butterfly on a Purple Coneflower\" width=\"572\" height=\"410\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-85\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mcgerik.com\/homestead\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/IMG_7933.jpg 572w, https:\/\/mcgerik.com\/homestead\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/IMG_7933-300x215.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 572px) 85vw, 572px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Five years ago, we planted a small native wildflower garden in our back yard. Every year we add more native wild flowers. One of the first plants we planted was Purple Coneflower (Echinacea angustifolia). They have established themselves and are slowly spreading. A frequent visitor to the coneflowers are Monarch butterflies (Danaus plexippus).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,9],"tags":[10,11],"class_list":["post-83","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-insects","category-wildflowers","tag-monarch-butterfly","tag-purple-coneflower"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcgerik.com\/homestead\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcgerik.com\/homestead\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcgerik.com\/homestead\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcgerik.com\/homestead\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcgerik.com\/homestead\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=83"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/mcgerik.com\/homestead\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":146,"href":"https:\/\/mcgerik.com\/homestead\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83\/revisions\/146"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcgerik.com\/homestead\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcgerik.com\/homestead\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcgerik.com\/homestead\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}