Vintage Print, Stinking Hawksbeard "crepis foetida" from the book A Voi Bimbi by by Edoardo Gioja (AR-A747)
 
This print comes from an Italian Children's book from 1911 called A Voi Bimbi. It is a collection of color prints depicting critters and plants. 
This print is a beautiful depiction of Crepis foetida, also known as Stinking Hawksbeard, an annual or biennial plant found in fields during summer. 
Flowering and Fruiting: Although its yellow flowers bloom in July and August, the text focuses on its appearance in autumn when only the small fruits are visible.
Each fruit contains tiny seeds attached to numerous fine, silk-like white threads, forming a spherical "balloon".
These light, feathery fruits are easily carried away by even the slightest breeze, resembling small spiders with many legs floating in the air until the wind deposits them in new locations.
 Once the fruits land, the seeds inside take root, ensuring the plant's rebirth in various places the following spring, flowering in summer, and then dispersing seeds again in autumn, continuing the cycle. 

Approx Size - 11x9