Coltsfoot flowers appear about now before their leaves.
They look a bit like pale dandelions but they differ by having scaly stems rather than smooth, a daisy-like disc in the middle, and . . . no leaves yet.
Coltsfoot juice was once used to make a cough medicine, and the dried leaves were smoked in pipes (!) as a cure for asthma.
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