Coltsfoot (Petasites frigidus subsp. palmatus)
Published at 20:57 on 18 March 2019
Normally these boom in late February, but we did not have a normal February. This one was in a wet ditch by a road, so its young shoots probably spent much of last month smothered in dirty, compacted snow pushed there by the plows. Aside from being delayed in blooming, little harm seems evident to them.