American goldfinch male eating yellow goat's beard seeds near Lime Springs IA 854A9078

This goldfinch is gorging on the seeds of yellow goat's beard, which is also called common salsify or wild oysterplant. The flowers looked like giant dandelions when they bloomed a while back and their seed heads look like humongous dandelion seed heads too. The fresh young roots were relished by people in years past.

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