{"id":289,"date":"2010-04-19T04:01:00","date_gmt":"2010-04-19T04:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/?p=289"},"modified":"2014-10-01T03:07:30","modified_gmt":"2014-10-01T03:07:30","slug":"pine-barren-beauty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/?p=289","title":{"rendered":"Pine Barren Beauty"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/pyxie.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 267px; height: 400px;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/pyxie-200x300.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5461680455751024978\" \/><\/a><span style=\"font-style:italic;\"><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\">Pyxidanthera barbulata and <span style=\"font-style: normal;\">False Reindeer Lichen<\/span><\/div>\n<p><\/span><br \/>This pretty little creeping plant is found only in the pine barrens of New Jersey and North Carolina; it creeps like a vine, looks like a moss and flowers like an herb, but is really a shrub; that is, its stems are woody. It forms small evergreen mats resembling mossy cushions and blooms in early Spring.<\/p>\n<p>The name, shortened to Pyxie, delightfully suggests the fairy folk to whom the name belongs.  Smiling upward from the sandy soil in the April sunshine, this tiny plant wields an incredible charm; especially so because I went out today not expecting to find much of note. As is so often the case with the Pine Barrens, I was pleasantly rewarded!<\/p>\n<p>Botanical info from <span style=\"font-style:italic;\">Our Early Wildflowers<\/span> by Harriet Keeler, 1916 and <span style=\"font-style:italic;\">Wildflowers of the Pine Barrens of NJ<\/span> by Howard Boyd, 2001<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pyxidanthera barbulata and False Reindeer Lichen This pretty little creeping plant is found only in the pine barrens of New Jersey and North Carolina; it creeps like a vine, looks like a moss and flowers like an herb, but is really a shrub; that is, its stems are woody. It forms small evergreen mats resembling &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/?p=289\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Pine Barren Beauty<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2268,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2,8,6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=289"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2268"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=289"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=289"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=289"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}