Noticed today: the change from extremely wet to hot weather seems to have helped (and sped) the growth of dandelions. Out in rural areas, I was surprised to see the massive amount of yellow flowers on the (normally) grass green hills. It’s a pest: overhere the dandelions seem to go through different phases: the normal phase and the ‘take cover there’s the guy with his whipper-snipper’ phase (that’s the phase the flowers grow so close to the ground that they can’t be ‘cut’ and the only way to deal with them is to literally pull them out).
It would be interesting to see how these flowers spread. Also, since these flowers seem to have come from Europe and Asia, it is probably interesting how the current dandelions have grown into, uh, these dandelions.