Catsear

Catsear has basal rosettes from which flower shoots grow in spring
It is a perennial, sending up new flowering shoots each year
The winter rosette is often multi-crowned and is made up of thick, hairy, dull-green, toothed leaves; the rosette rises from a stout taproot
Large, solitary dandelion-like flower heads, 2.5 – 4 cm across, appear at the end of tall, solid, sparingly branched, leafless stems
Readily distinguished from the other similar species, hawksbeard and hawkbit, by its leaves, which are covered in the short hairs that give the plant its name
A very common weed of lawns but also common in grassland, pastures, sand dunes and river beds.