{"id":4140,"date":"2014-09-15T08:45:11","date_gmt":"2014-09-15T12:45:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/biology\/?p=4140"},"modified":"2024-01-04T16:22:50","modified_gmt":"2024-01-04T21:22:50","slug":"plants-of-the-week-sept-15-21","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/biology\/2014\/09\/15\/plants-of-the-week-sept-15-21\/","title":{"rendered":"Plants of the Week Sept 15-21"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Chickory\u00a0(<em>Cichorium intybus<\/em>) and Valley Oak (<em>Quercus lobata)<\/em><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_4148\" style=\"width: 135px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/biology\/files\/2014\/09\/week3-pic11.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4148\" class=\"wp-image-4148 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/biology\/files\/2014\/09\/week3-pic11.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"125\" height=\"83\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-4148\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Chickory Flower (Wikipedia contributors. &#8220;Chicory.&#8221; Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia.)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Post by\u00a0Maria Felski<\/p>\n<p>Species: Common Chicory (<em>Cichorium intybus<\/em>)<\/p>\n<p>Range: Europe, North America, and Australia<\/p>\n<p>The Chicory is my favorite plant because of its ability to simultaneously balance beauty and practicality. Its flower petals characterized by a signature bright blue, the Chicory plant has been used in everything from salads and coffees to modern-day medicines. In fact, the root of the Chicory has even been effectively used as a method of eliminating intestinal worms.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_4149\" style=\"width: 135px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/biology\/files\/2014\/09\/week3-pic21.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4149\" class=\"wp-image-4149 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/biology\/files\/2014\/09\/week3-pic21.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"125\" height=\"83\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-4149\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Valley Oak (photo credit: Katie Van Patten)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Post by Katie Van Patten<\/p>\n<p>Species:<span style=\"color: #444340;\">Valley Oak (<\/span><em style=\"color: #444340;\">Quercus lobata)<\/em><\/p>\n<p>This tree is native to California and grows mostly in the valley and surrounding hills.\u00a0 As an oak tree, its seeds come in the form of acorns. Due to the drought in California, a lot of these trees are suffering from lack of water.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chickory\u00a0(Cichorium intybus) and Valley Oak (Quercus lobata) Post by\u00a0Maria Felski Species: Common&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":478,"featured_media":4147,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_hide_ai_chatbot":false,"_ai_chatbot_style":"","associated_faculty":[],"_Page_Specific_Css":"","_bates_restrict_mod":false,"_batesModPostContentOverride_prepend":false,"_batesModPostContentOverride_append":false,"_batesModPostContentOverride_append_before_footer":false,"_table_of_contents_display":false,"_table_of_contents_location":"","_table_of_contents_disableSticky":false,"_is_featured":false,"footnotes":"","_bates_seo_meta_description":"","_bates_seo_block_robots":false,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_id":0,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_twitter_id":0,"_bates_seo_share_title":"","_bates_seo_canonical_overwrite":"","_bates_seo_twitter_template":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4140","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4140","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/478"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4140"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4140\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7546,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4140\/revisions\/7546"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4147"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4140"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4140"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4140"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}