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Spotting

Description:

Brown burr-like object - possibly an insect of some sort? - attached to dandelion seed puffs

Habitat:

On dandelion, on side lawn

Notes:

Not sure what it is

1 Species ID Suggestions

flybeasley
flybeasley 11 years ago
Dandalion
Taraxacum Taraxacum


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3 Comments

AlënaGuseva
AlënaGuseva 11 years ago

That is a bit of dried flower petals from when the dandelion was blooming.

chesterbperry
chesterbperry 11 years ago

That is the calyx.

flybeasley
flybeasley 11 years ago

The brown stuff is the flower. The white bit are in the inside of the flower. They fall off when it is time to seed.

NikkiSchneider
Spotted by
NikkiSchneider

Ontario, Canada

Spotted on Sep 2, 2012
Submitted on Sep 3, 2012

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