Wildflower ID please?

eiona · #1 (**permalink**) 14-03-2010, 03:07 PM

I captured this at the RSPB Newport Wetlands, S.Wales yesterday? Can someone tell me what it is please?

Thanks

eiona

PS It was at ground level and just slightly larger in diameter than a daisy

earthdragon64 · #2 (**permalink**) 14-03-2010, 03:18 PM

It's Coltsfoot - Tussilago farfara.

eiona · #3 (**permalink**) 14-03-2010, 03:24 PM

Great- thanks

caernerch · #4 (**permalink**) 14-03-2010, 06:11 PM

atypically, coltsfoot flowers appear before the leaves, Go there in a few weeks and you'll see the leaves which give the plant its name
caernerch

eiona · #5 (**permalink**) 14-03-2010, 07:31 PM

Cheers for the extra info caenerch. I've just taken a look at the other images I took and there's not a leaf in sight

eiona

animartco · #6 (**permalink**) 17-03-2010, 04:09 PM

At last! A coltsfoot. I wondered when the second person would spot one. They are either very late this year or getting frighteningly rare.

bigdave60dog · #7 (**permalink**) 17-03-2010, 04:21 PM

Hey amazing. It is out in the Orkney Islands as well.
Dave

oaxaca · #8 (**permalink**) 17-03-2010, 04:29 PM

Found a patch of ~15 Coltsfoot flowers earlier today at Sandwell Valley Nature Reserve in Birmingham

You are right though, they are not the most abundent flowers to come across this spring...

animartco · #9 (**permalink**) 20-03-2010, 09:30 PM

High Oaxaca,
Fifteen flowers? Coltsfoot used to be one of the big earliest sources of colour, covering banks of stony ground. I haven't seen one for years. Most of the flowers reported in this thread have been cultivars, non native. Apart from the little white things, which are very interesting but not as spectacular as coltsfoot or celandines. Wonder who will report the first windflower?

aeshna5 · #10 (**permalink**) 21-03-2010, 07:08 AM

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Originally Posted by animartco

High Oaxaca,
Fifteen flowers? Coltsfoot used to be one of the big earliest sources of colour, covering banks of stony ground. I haven't seen one for years. Most of the flowers reported in this thread have been cultivars, non native. Apart from the little white things, which are very interesting but not as spectacular as coltsfoot or celandines. Wonder who will report the first windflower?

I've not seen cultivars of Coltsfoot +I'm not aware of it being grown as a garden plant (apart from those that have it as a genuine wild flower) + have never seen it in any horticultural shows. I've no reason to see why none of the above are not wild!

By contrast there is a wide range of cultivars of Lesser Celandine- doubles (flore pleno), bronze leaves (Brazen Hussey) + flowers orange or very pale..