Are you seeing dandelions in the spring? You may want to double check. Those yellow flowers you're seeing could be coltsfoot.
While its flowers are pretty, this plant is actually named after its leaves which resemble a horseshoe in cross section. Coltsfoot flowers pop up in early spring and are often found in poor, disturbed soils. (Which is why it grows next to my driveway!) The leaves don't appear until after the flowers have died back and the plant has gone to seed, so in the spring, the flowers show up with no apparent leaves.
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| Coltsfoot (Tussilago farfara) |
