Yellow goatsbeard. I was excited when I looked this plant up because it is one type of a familiar edible plant: salsify. Salsify root is sold in the greenmarkets, and it's said to taste a little like oysters, thus another name for these flowers - oyster plant. The cultivated edible salsify has pink flowers, but otherwise looks similar to this one, and the two kinds often hybridize when growing in waste places like this.
It's unique-looking because the green sepals grow all the way past the flower, making them look spidery. The leaves are long and grassy-looking. These flowers also have the amusing habit of opening up for the morning sun but closing by the afternoon.
Growing behind a chain-link fence in a gravelled lot on Adam Clayton Powell in Harlem.
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