Another yellow flower that seems to appear as the last of the dandelions are going to seed: Colts Foot, also known as Tussilgo.
Colts Foot can be confused with hawkweed.
I’ve seen honey bees on them enough times to know I can add them to my Newfoundland Honey Bee Forage List.
By the way, I see Colts Foot well into the fall.
It looks quite hard to tell the difference between colts foot and dandelions.
the dandelion generally has a number of large green leaves as its base where the colts foot doesn’t
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Thanks Sharon.
The stem of a dandelion is hollow. The colts foot stem is thin.
I didn’t even know what Colts Foot was until I got into beekeeping.