Is this really just a dandelion

It's been 3 or 4 weeks since I posted anything. I took this picture near the end of August in an Alpine field. It looks a lot like a dandelion, but it is held together more strongly. Is it a dandelion or somehing else?

Charlie

 

Something else, but not sure what.

 

Tragopogon?

 

Pic is one I took of Tragopon dubius seedhead a few years ago Perhaps yours might be a thistle of some kind? Lots of Composites to choose from. There appears to be a whorl of bracts, which I don't recall being like that in T. Hard to tell without a pic of the whole plant & maybe some details of leaves etc.

...of course it you go back & look again, the seeds will have blown away, away, away...

gb.

 

Here's another picture that shows the surrounding vegetation. The large, broad leaves appear to be associated with the seed pod.

Hope this helps
Charlie

 

a kind of but is difficult to identify it with this smal part of it.

 

Could this be Senecio viscosus? The Tragopon dubius seed head looks to fragil compared to this.

Charlie