{"id":8060,"date":"2025-06-09T19:16:37","date_gmt":"2025-06-09T23:16:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/backlandscoalition.ca\/?p=8060"},"modified":"2025-06-09T19:20:01","modified_gmt":"2025-06-09T23:20:01","slug":"golden-heather-mt-sandwort-in-bloom-now-in-the-backlands-9jun2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/backlandscoalition.ca\/?p=8060","title":{"rendered":"Golden Heather &#038; Mt. Sandwort in Bloom now in the Backlands 9Jun2025"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_8062\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/backlandscoalition.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/JBDpics9Jun2025.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8062\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-8062\" src=\"http:\/\/backlandscoalition.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/JBDpics9Jun2025-300x191.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"191\" srcset=\"http:\/\/backlandscoalition.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/JBDpics9Jun2025-300x191.jpg 300w, http:\/\/backlandscoalition.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/JBDpics9Jun2025-1024x651.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/backlandscoalition.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/JBDpics9Jun2025-768x488.jpg 768w, http:\/\/backlandscoalition.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/JBDpics9Jun2025.jpg 1062w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-8062\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><strong>Mt Sandwort (left) and Golden Heather (right)\u00a0 in bloom recently on barrens in the Backlands.<\/strong> Photos by JBD<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Commented JBD today<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>This year I have seen more Mountain Sandwort in bloom than ever before. I\u2019m also finding it growing in places where I\u2019ve not noticed it before. Also, the Golden Heather is in bloom<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Both species\u00a0 have a S2 Conservation rank (S2=Imperilled) and are &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/backlandscoalition.ca\/?page_id=5345\">Priority Species<\/a>&#8220;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Commented JBD today This year I have seen more Mountain Sandwort in bloom than ever before. I\u2019m also finding it growing in places where I\u2019ve not noticed it before. Also, the Golden Heather is in bloom Both species\u00a0 have a &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/backlandscoalition.ca\/?p=8060\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8060","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-conservation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/backlandscoalition.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8060","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/backlandscoalition.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/backlandscoalition.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/backlandscoalition.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/backlandscoalition.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8060"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/backlandscoalition.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8060\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8065,"href":"http:\/\/backlandscoalition.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8060\/revisions\/8065"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/backlandscoalition.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8060"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/backlandscoalition.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8060"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/backlandscoalition.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8060"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}