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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.
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.
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