{"id":36,"date":"2014-02-03T19:27:58","date_gmt":"2014-02-03T19:27:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.minnesotaseasons.com\/?p=36"},"modified":"2014-02-03T19:27:58","modified_gmt":"2014-02-03T19:27:58","slug":"western-jacobs-ladder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.minnesotaseasons.com\/?p=36","title":{"rendered":"Western Jacob&#8217;s Ladder"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_37\" style=\"width: 224px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.minnesotaseasons.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/western_Jacobs_ladder_01.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-37\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-37\" alt=\"Photo by Bill Reynolds\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.minnesotaseasons.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/western_Jacobs_ladder_01-214x300.jpg\" width=\"214\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.minnesotaseasons.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/western_Jacobs_ladder_01-214x300.jpg 214w, https:\/\/blog.minnesotaseasons.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/western_Jacobs_ladder_01.jpg 514w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 214px) 100vw, 214px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-37\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo by Bill Reynolds<\/p><\/div>\n<p>There are only five known locations where western Jacob\u2019s ladder <em>(Polemonium occidentale<\/em> ssp. <em>lacustre)<\/em> can be found today. Three of those locations are in Minnesota and two are in Wisconsin. The species is restricted to openings in conifer swamps that have a blanket of sphagnum and other mosses and are dominated by northern white cedar and sometimes tamarack and\/or black spruce. It rises on a single erect stem. The leaves have up to 27 narrow leaflets that resemble a ladder. The blue flowers can be seen from late June to July.<\/p>\n<div class=\"fcbkbttn_buttons_block\" id=\"fcbkbttn_left\"><div class=\"fcbkbttn_like \"><fb:like href=\"https:\/\/blog.minnesotaseasons.com\/?p=36\" action=\"like\" colorscheme=\"light\" layout=\"button_count\"  size=\"small\"><\/fb:like><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are only five known locations where western Jacob\u2019s ladder (Polemonium occidentale ssp. lacustre) can be found today. Three of those locations are in Minnesota and two are in Wisconsin. The species is restricted to openings in conifer swamps that have a blanket of sphagnum and other mosses and are dominated by northern white cedar [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[10,9],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.minnesotaseasons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.minnesotaseasons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.minnesotaseasons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minnesotaseasons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minnesotaseasons.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=36"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minnesotaseasons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minnesotaseasons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36\/revisions\/38"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.minnesotaseasons.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minnesotaseasons.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minnesotaseasons.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}