Jun 26
What looks like an ordinary dandelion is actually the flower of a Lindley’s false silverpuff (Uropappus lindleyi).
It gets its “silverpuff” name for the round head of silvery seeds that appears after blooming.
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What looks like an ordinary dandelion is actually the flower of a Lindley’s false silverpuff (Uropappus lindleyi).
It gets its “silverpuff” name for the round head of silvery seeds that appears after blooming.
Lindley’s false silverpuff (Uropappus lindleyi), another wildflower with a fantastical name.
You’d be forgiven if you casually mistook this seed head for a dandelion, as I did for weeks before I stopped to really look at it.
It normally has yellow flowers, and attracts hummingbirds, butterflies and bees for the nectar and rodents looking for seeds as a food source.
A Lindley’s false silverpuff, as a flower and later, as a seed head.
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