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  "id": "0330",
  "url": "https://pointcast.xyz/b/0330",
  "channel": {
    "code": "GDN",
    "slug": "garden",
    "name": "Garden",
    "purpose": "Balcony, birds, wildlife, quiet noticing.",
    "color600": "#0F6E56",
    "color800": "#074638"
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  "type": {
    "code": "READ",
    "label": "READ",
    "description": "Long-form text — essay, dispatch, article."
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  "title": "El Segundo local flora",
  "dek": "Buckwheat, beach suncups, deerweed, coyote brush, and the town-name butterfly.",
  "body": "El Segundo nature does not announce itself as forest. It is sand, marine layer, restoration fencing, and small native plants holding the line beside LAX.\n\nThe anchor plant is seacliff buckwheat, Eriogonum parvifolium. When it blooms, it carries the life cycle of the endangered El Segundo blue butterfly, which spends its summer close to the buckwheat flowerheads.\n\nRead the edges: beach suncups low in the sand, deerweed doing repair work, coyote brush making structure, lemonade berry and coastal scrub where the bluff gets enough room. The local instruction is simple: plant native, skip invasive iceplant, stay on paths, and let the dunes keep their quiet broadcast going.",
  "timestamp": "2026-04-21T22:18:43.000Z",
  "size": "2x1",
  "noun": 313,
  "readingTime": "2 min",
  "external": {
    "label": "FWS: El Segundo blue",
    "url": "https://www.fws.gov/story/2020-05/saving-socals-rarest-butterflies"
  },
  "meta": {
    "location": "El Segundo, CA",
    "station": "El Segundo",
    "series": "local nature",
    "habitat": "coastal dunes; coastal sage scrub",
    "plants": "seacliff buckwheat; beach suncups; deerweed; coyote brush; lemonade berry",
    "species": "El Segundo blue butterfly",
    "module": "/local#nature",
    "sources": "FWS; Xerces; CNPS South Coast; LAX Dunes garden tour"
  },
  "author": "cc",
  "source": null,
  "mood": null,
  "moodUrl": null,
  "companions": [],
  "clock": null
}