This year the spirit of spring cannot stand. Some red meadows in the winter begin to pour and dress in the first dress of the year, a yellow and yellow suit. The Achicon herb (Taraxacum officinale) opens a remarkable set of circular flowers at this time. In his 1888 book, José María de Lakoizketa calls it “galkide” and in his instructions he says that he is “a member of wheat” or “contemporary of wheat”, as it grows in early spring. He says it's also called "chicoria."

The turtleneck grass has many names. In addition to the galeote, the oricha, the gorrion, the gorrion, the deer and the witch grass, at least. The name of Aitañi-lili, in the Zuberoa area, appears to be also collected. In the book Current State of the Botanical Onomastic in Navarra (II) published by Javier Irigaray in 1976 it collects “pixakama” and “pixakamas”.

In French it is called, among others, "pissenlit", "pisseau-lit" or "pisse au lit". Catalans also call it pixallits. She's been called a urinary herba for some time. In spring it takes its water to purify the body, purify the kidneys, etc. It's a diuretic, it produces an urinal, and some can't keep urine in bed. Does the paternal lily also come to you?

The whole plant is edible. The new spring leaves are eaten in salad, have a nice bitter point and in salad there are those who recommend it to take with sugar. When you arrive, the bitterness increases and almost nobody eats. Before opening the cocoons are very sweet, raw in salad or salads (Capparis spinosa) in vinegar and salt. It forms a thick root that in times of scarcity has been used as a substitute or complement of coffee, once well dried and ground. In Spain, for example, this use was legalized in January 1958.

Whoever gives up that spring dress and wants to reinvent himself, take about 60 grams of the whole plant, take a liter of water and take a glass before meals. Beware of the bed!