Spring brings with it many wildflowers emerging and blooming on warm, rainy and sunny days. Most dandelions have bloomed and gone to seed by now, although a few continue to remain. Another yellow flower that blooms in our yards that we often mistake for dandelions is the invasive yellow hawkweed.

Blooming on Memorial Day it produces multiple daisylike flowers on each stalk, unlike dandelions, with one flower for each stalk.

It spreads in clumps through rhizomes, underground stems and stolons, which are above-ground runners that produce new plants from the parent.

Its leaves are blackish, hairy and bristly on both sides.

Hawkweed can also appear with beautiful orange rays reaching out from a yellow disk, indicating they are from the daisy family and are found in yards, roadsides and fie

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