{"id":1583,"date":"2014-04-05T08:33:25","date_gmt":"2014-04-05T08:33:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wakefieldnaturalists.org\/?p=1583"},"modified":"2014-04-12T08:35:31","modified_gmt":"2014-04-12T08:35:31","slug":"wildflowers-of-wakefield-common-storksbill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wakefieldnaturalists.org\/?p=1583","title":{"rendered":"wildflowers of Wakefield: Common storksbill"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">I was driving into Wakefield on Friday evening and, as the traffic slowed, I was scanning the patches of Danish scurvy grass in the middle of the road when I spotted some conspicuous patches of pink flowers. I returned the next morning to have a closer look before the traffic got too busy and I found that the flowers belong to common storksbill (<i>Erodium cicutarium).<\/i><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Common storksbill is an invasive species normally favouring sandy soils but can grow in a variety of soils. According to Wkipedia, the whole plant is apparently edible and has a similar taste to parsley However, another plant site says &#8216;may be toxic&#8217;!<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1584\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/wakefieldnaturalists.org\/?attachment_id=1584\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1584\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1584\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1584\" alt=\"common storksbill (Erodium cicutarium)\" src=\"http:\/\/wakefieldnaturalists.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_5672-small.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wakefieldnaturalists.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_5672-small.jpg 600w, https:\/\/wakefieldnaturalists.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_5672-small-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/wakefieldnaturalists.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_5672-small-450x300.jpg 450w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1584\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">common storksbill (Erodium cicutarium)<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_1585\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/wakefieldnaturalists.org\/?attachment_id=1585\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1585\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1585\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1585\" alt=\"common storksbill (Erodium cicutarium)\" src=\"http:\/\/wakefieldnaturalists.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_5672.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wakefieldnaturalists.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_5672.jpg 600w, https:\/\/wakefieldnaturalists.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_5672-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/wakefieldnaturalists.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_5672-450x300.jpg 450w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1585\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">common storksbill (Erodium cicutarium)<\/p><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was driving into Wakefield on Friday evening and, as the traffic slowed, I was scanning the patches of Danish scurvy grass in the middle of the road when I spotted some conspicuous patches of pink flowers. I returned the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/wakefieldnaturalists.org\/?p=1583\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[18,19],"tags":[60,65,61,64,63,62],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wakefieldnaturalists.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1583"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wakefieldnaturalists.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wakefieldnaturalists.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wakefieldnaturalists.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wakefieldnaturalists.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1583"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/wakefieldnaturalists.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1583\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1587,"href":"https:\/\/wakefieldnaturalists.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1583\/revisions\/1587"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wakefieldnaturalists.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1583"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wakefieldnaturalists.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1583"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wakefieldnaturalists.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1583"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}