Tragopogon dubius - Yellow Goats Beard Kitchen Towel

This is a biennial plant often mistaken for grass before it blooms in it's second year of life. The seed head is like a huge dandelion with the wind acting as a dispersal agent for the seeds. The plant is gradually spreading from the western areas of the United States toward the East. The background texture is from http://shadowhousecreations.blogspot.com/ http://www.minnesotawildflowers.info/flower/yellow-goats-beard http://www.ppws.vt.edu/scott/weed_id/trodm.htm