Coltsfoot

Coltsfoot, Tussilago farfara.

The coltsfoot flowers as early as February and is one of the most welcome signs of the coming spring.
It is a colonist of open or bare ground on a range of soils, and is one of the first plants to invade ground newly left bare by retreating Alpine glaciers.

Today in Britain it is a flower of road verges, waysides, river banks, sea cliffs, and open grassland.

Photographed in Aberdeenshire, Scotland, in April.

Location: Aberdeenshire, Scotland.