Goat's-beard, Göteborg, October 14th, 2001

thirty stiff umbrellas
a sphere of parachutes
on a sunny october sunday

Tragopogon pratensis Ängshaverrot i december, i maj och i juli Eva Ekeblad, 2001

Upon seeing today's sample Erik Ljungstrand pointed out the long sepals, reaching considerably beyond the petals, which means that this is the subspecies minor of the Tragopogon pratensis. Checking back to July, then, I can see that there I have selected, unwittingly, an individual of the subspecies pratensis - Tragopogon pratensis ssp. pratensis.