Coltsfoot

At last!! spring flowers to blip.....things are certainly looking up! 
This is the beautiful Tussilago farfara a really pretty early spring flower and one of my favorites, I love the way the flowers are borne on long scaly stems before the leaves develop. A member of the groundsel tribe in the daisy family Asteraceae the flowers develop fluffy seed heads like dandelions once the pale lemon-yellow flowers are over.