{"id":261,"date":"2016-08-14T19:57:09","date_gmt":"2016-08-14T19:57:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/travelblog.aleutians.plant-evolution.org\/?p=261"},"modified":"2016-08-14T19:57:09","modified_gmt":"2016-08-14T19:57:09","slug":"back-on-track","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/travelblog.aleutians.plant-evolution.org\/?p=261","title":{"rendered":"Back On Track"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=nicrodemo\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p><strong>8 August 2016.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>After two days searching I found <em>Mimulus<\/em> today. Along a salmon stream a few plants poked their fruity and flowery heads through the grass. A couple of people were mesmerized by seeing the salmon swim upstream to find a place to lay their eggs, but I was too excited to find monkeyflowers here. The National Park ranger (Bonnie) looked at me amused and happy to have helped to find the plant.<\/p>\n<p>There were only a few plants, but they were enough for spurring me into keep looking. About 20 miles from Valdez I found more plants and up the road a few more. Success!<\/p>\n<p>As I was pulling out from one of the sampling sites I noticed a tire had gone completely flat. I changed the tire on the side of the road and found a metal hook deep into the broken tire. A few hours later I had driven back to Valdez and repaired the tire. I collected a few more populations at increasing elevation. These plants are different to the other ones we have seen in the trip. There is a most interesting phenotype here that I have not seen anywhere else. I\u2019ll have to look more carefully at these plants when I get back to Scotland.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>8 August 2016. &nbsp; After two days searching I found Mimulus today. Along a salmon stream a few plants poked their fruity and flowery heads through the grass. A couple of people were mesmerized by seeing the salmon swim upstream to find a place to lay their eggs, but I was too excited to find [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-261","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/travelblog.aleutians.plant-evolution.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/travelblog.aleutians.plant-evolution.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/travelblog.aleutians.plant-evolution.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/travelblog.aleutians.plant-evolution.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/travelblog.aleutians.plant-evolution.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=261"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/travelblog.aleutians.plant-evolution.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":262,"href":"https:\/\/travelblog.aleutians.plant-evolution.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261\/revisions\/262"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/travelblog.aleutians.plant-evolution.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=261"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/travelblog.aleutians.plant-evolution.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=261"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/travelblog.aleutians.plant-evolution.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}