{"id":767,"date":"2016-02-11T07:19:22","date_gmt":"2016-02-11T13:19:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.minnesotaseasons.com\/?p=767"},"modified":"2016-02-11T07:19:22","modified_gmt":"2016-02-11T13:19:22","slug":"lance-leaf-fog-fruit-phyla-lanceolata","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.minnesotaseasons.com\/?p=767","title":{"rendered":"Lance-leaf fog-fruit <em>(Phyla lanceolata)<\/em>"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.minnesotaseasons.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/lance-leaf_fog-fruit_03.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-768\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-768\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.minnesotaseasons.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/lance-leaf_fog-fruit_03.jpg\" alt=\"lance-leaf fog-fruit\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.minnesotaseasons.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/lance-leaf_fog-fruit_03.jpg 720w, https:\/\/blog.minnesotaseasons.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/lance-leaf_fog-fruit_03-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blog.minnesotaseasons.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/lance-leaf_fog-fruit_03-624x416.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 720px) 100vw, 720px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Lance-leaf fog-fruit <em>(Phyla lanceolata)<\/em> is common in its core range from Ohio to Kansas, much less common in Minnesota. It is found in wet to moist areas along streambanks, margins of ponds and lakes, marshes, and roadside ditches. From June to September it produces numerous small heads of many tiny flowers surrounding a purple cone.<\/p>\n<p>The common name \u201cfog-fruit\u201d comes from an old Scottish word for moss, <em>fog<\/em>. It refers to the matted, moss-like habit of the plant. Another common name \u201cfrog-fruit\u201d originated in what appears to be a typographical error in the 1834 book Botanical Teacher for North America. The error has persisted and is now the most commonly used name for this plant.<\/p>\n<p>The flower heads of lance-leaf fog-fruit are distinctive. There are no similar species in Minnesota.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/minnesotaseasons.com\/Plants\/lance-leaf_fog-fruit.html\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/minnesotaseasons.com\/Plants\/lance-leaf_fog-fruit.html<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"fcbkbttn_buttons_block\" id=\"fcbkbttn_left\"><div class=\"fcbkbttn_like \"><fb:like href=\"https:\/\/blog.minnesotaseasons.com\/?p=767\" action=\"like\" colorscheme=\"light\" layout=\"button_count\"  size=\"small\"><\/fb:like><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lance-leaf fog-fruit (Phyla lanceolata) is common in its core range from Ohio to Kansas, much less common in Minnesota. It is found in wet to moist areas along streambanks, margins of ponds and lakes, marshes, and roadside ditches. From June to September it produces numerous small heads of many tiny flowers surrounding a purple cone. [&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":[309,310],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.minnesotaseasons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/767"}],"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=767"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minnesotaseasons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/767\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":769,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minnesotaseasons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/767\/revisions\/769"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.minnesotaseasons.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=767"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minnesotaseasons.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=767"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minnesotaseasons.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=767"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}