@flaflwrgrl That's it! Like you, I thought it might be some rare and exotic flower, and if I pulled it up, I would be destroying the last one in existence. The first seed pods opened up and I saw it through the breakfast room window and due to my severe myopia, I first thought some "fuzz" had landed on the plant and went out to take a closer look. I better get outside and pull it up because that sucker has enough "flowers" on it to sow most of central Florida.
Regarding the chicken: Our neighbors have them -- I don't know how many, but their cages or however they try to contain them isn't very secure. One day there were four out front scratching around and then there was the one DH caught sight of up in the tree. This one almost got caught by something because later the day we saw him there were a lot of white feathers scattered in the yard. I suppose you might call them free range chickens!
