If you look carefully in the spring woods, you might be surprised to find what looks like a clump of small yellow dandelions. They’re pretty petty things. But look closer. There are no leaves.

Coltsfoot (Tussilago farfara) is a flower in the daisy family that’s been used for medicinal purposes. However, research suggests there may be negative effects associated with it. Share on Pinterest ...

I would like to be emailed about offers, event and updates from Evening Standard. Read our privacy notice. Coltsfoot, or tussilago farfara, is opening now. This is a curious-looking plant — though you ...

As we delight in our first garden crocuses, we might wonder, what’s the first wildflower of spring? Some candidates don’t match our everyday notion of a flower. Everyone loves pussy willows (Salix ...

It’s still only January, but spring is already making its presence felt in parts of the archipelago in southwest Finland. Brightly-hued yellow coltsfoot flowers (leskenlehti in Finnish) have been seen ...

Nancy Kent of Radford shares this Valentine's Day photo and writes, "Just as this small Coltsfoot flower is hidden in leaves and other dry foliage, it may sometimes seem as if spring is hiding from us ...

THIS period in our countryside is truly magnificent. Bird song is at its best, young mammals are beginning to find their feet and butterflies seem to make maximum use of each and every shaft of ...

LAST year I recorded 1 (NATURE, vol. xxv. p. 241) Coltsfoot in blossom on January 6, on the sides of the railway near here, probably an unprecedentedly early date. The mild weather lately prevailing ...

SOME time ago, when I was carrying out some investigations concerning the behaviour of plants, I came across the statement, in Sir J. E. Smith's "English Flora" (1829), that the flowers of the ...