{"id":1825,"date":"2011-01-04T05:57:59","date_gmt":"2011-01-04T10:57:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/?p=1825"},"modified":"2011-01-25T16:37:54","modified_gmt":"2011-01-25T21:37:54","slug":"ground-cedar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/2011\/01\/ground-cedar\/","title":{"rendered":"Ground Cedar"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nSometimes called ground pine, sometimes ground cedar, this is a hardy native plant. (At least I THINK it’s a native vs. a plant that was brought here.) This little lycopodium<\/em> plant is actually protected in New York State, even though it’s common in my woods. So I can pick it on my own property for my personal use, but I can’t sell it, nor can I pick it on State land or other public lands. Folks around here often make wreaths out of it, because it stays green for a fairly long time, even after being picked.<\/p>\n

We’d had lots of snow, but then it warmed up for a few days, and rained. A lot. Between the warmth and the rain, we lost most of the snow we had, so little plants that had been completely buried were now able to reach the sun again. <\/p>\n

I certainly wasn’t surprised to see so much ground cedar in my short woods walk, but I was struck by the fact that this particular plant was taking full advantage of the weather opportunity. It’s made a reproduction stalk, full of spores that will disperse to make new plants. The fact that a stiff breeze was making me cold despite bright sunshine didn’t daunt this little guy. Its tenacity made me smile.<\/p>\n

Your turn: what’s up with plant life near you early in the new year?<\/strong>
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Sometimes called ground pine, sometimes ground cedar, this is a hardy native plant. (At least I THINK it’s a native vs. a plant that was brought here.) This little lycopodium plant is actually protected in New York State, even though it’s common in my woods. So I can pick it on my own property […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[99],"class_list":["post-1825","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life-as-i-see-it","tag-nature","odd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1825","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1825"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1825\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2174,"href":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1825\/revisions\/2174"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1825"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1825"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1825"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}