Timothy is a common source of hay for farmers and not the first thing you think of as a wildflower, but if you suffer from hay fever this flower is one of your worst enemies.
The Timothy seed heads are now flowering and I see clouds of grass pollen dislodge from the seed heads as I mow the fields.
A close-up of a flowering Timothy seed head (the head of a hover fly in the upper left).
Once the seed head is pollinated the purple stamens and stigmas will fall off and some will collect in the radiator screen on my tractor (which I had to clean again today).
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