Perennial herbaceous plant, 5-25 cm high. The rhizome is long, branched, creeping. Two types of shoots develop from the buds on the rhizome: flowering and vegetative. The stems are fleshy, covered with scale-like leaves.
Flower baskets (inflorescences) are single, 2-2.5 cm in diameter, on the tops of the stems, drooping after flowering. The flowers are bright yellow, with a pappus of soft hairs.
The fruit is a cylindrical achene.
The peculiarity of coltsfoot is that it blooms in early spring, before the leaves bloom. Since ancient times, the plant has been used as a medicinal plant.