Scientific name: Tussilago farfara L.
Common name: Colt's foot
Description
Habit: Perennial, to 15 cm high.
Stems: Erect, bearing many bracts; with a rhizome.
Leaves: 8-15 cm across, cordate, round in outline, and shallowly palmately lobed, somewhat toothed; white and cottony.
Flowers: Yellow, flower-heads solitary, 25-40 mm across, appearing before the leaves, on long peduncles bearing numerous scale-leaves; involucral bracts linear, in a single row, with a few shorter outer ones; outer row of florets ligulate, radiating and narrow, inner ones tubular and male.
Fruits: An achene, pappus white, silky, of unbranched hairs.
Habitat: Roadsides, stony sea shores, cliffs, waste ground, field margins.
Distribution: Widespread but seldom abundant.
Native status: Native
Of conservation interest: No