{"id":9623,"date":"2011-08-28T19:55:13","date_gmt":"2011-08-29T03:55:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/?p=9623"},"modified":"2012-04-18T20:30:35","modified_gmt":"2012-04-19T04:30:35","slug":"weedy-orchid-taking-root","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/2011\/08\/28\/weedy-orchid-taking-root\/","title":{"rendered":"Weedy Orchid Taking Root"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sfgate.com\/cgi-bin\/article.cgi?f=\/c\/a\/2011\/08\/25\/HOG91KNI5Q.DTL\" target=\"_blank\">The &#8220;Golden Gate Gardener&#8221; on <em>SFGate<\/em> devotes the top half of a column to an orchid weed.<\/a> No, it&#8217;s not the tropical <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/2009\/03\/04\/arundina-an-orchid-weed\/\">Bamboo Orchid<\/a>, but instead an emigrant from Europe, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.orchidspecies.com\/epiphelleborine.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Epipactis helleborine<\/a>. It&#8217;s related to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/2010\/06\/05\/stream-orchid\/\">the Stream Orchid, the native Epipactis that I grow<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Epipactis helleborine has a home range across a broad swath of Europe and Asia, stretching from Ireland all the way to China. Early colonists brought it to North America to use the roots as a gout treatment. With nicknames like &#8220;weed orchid&#8221; and &#8220;poor man&#8217;s lady slipper,&#8221; it&#8217;s considered <a href=\"http:\/\/www.usna.usda.gov\/Gardens\/invasives.html\" target=\"_blank\">an invasive plant<\/a> in parts of the USA and Canada, but it&#8217;s not a significant problem here in the SF Bay Area. This <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/2010\/09\/11\/terrestrial-orchids\/\">terrestrial<\/a> can spread by seeds or by root runners, and can pop up in surprising places, like roadside ditches or patches of poison oak. That&#8217;s a wildly successful orchid weed!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The &#8220;Golden Gate Gardener&#8221; on SFGate devotes the top half of a column to an orchid weed. No, it&#8217;s not the tropical Bamboo Orchid, but instead an emigrant from Europe, Epipactis helleborine. It&#8217;s related to the Stream Orchid, the native Epipactis that I grow. Epipactis helleborine has a home range across a broad swath of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,27,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9623","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cool-growers","category-growing-orchids-in-san-francisco","category-in-the-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9623","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9623"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9623\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11760,"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9623\/revisions\/11760"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9623"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9623"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9623"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}