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In the withered grass in meadows, on ditch banks – and always on the sunny slopes, on rather wet sand or clayey soil, the little golden yellow flowers of the colt’s-foot shine from the tip of their short, woolly-haired stems. The stems lengthen day by day and make the colt’s-foot more conspicuous in the bleached grey-brown old grass landscape.

 

Looking closer at the flowers, the outer ray florets are female flowers and the disc florets mostly male flowers. The colt’-foot is pollinated by insects. They get pollen from the plant, but no nectar.