What common lawn bloom changes from a fierce yellow mane into a sphere of silver parachutes, sounding like a fashionable, finely dressed king of the jungle?
A dandelion
The flower's name sounds like 'dandy lion'—a dandy being an exceptionally well-dressed individual and a lion being a maned feline.
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