Tassel flowers in my lawn come in two colors: red (Emilia fosbergii) and lavender (Emilia sonchifolia).

I've seen Cassius Blue, and Tropical Checkered Skipper Butterflies sip nectar from the purple flowers; it's a good butterfly nectar plant.

Some people call these little flowers 'Paintbrush' because they often dangle flower down, showing just a small wispy bit of color like an artists brush with a dab of paint on the tip.

Tassel flowers get puffball seed heads like the Dandelions so many children blow and make a wish as they disperse in the breeze.

Each floret in the composite makes one seed which is topped by a translucent white whirl of silken threads, a biological paraglider to let it waft on the breeze to a new home.