In well-protected spot the first dandelions (Taraxacum sp.) show their yellow faces.
A ray of sunshine makes it happen, even if it is cold.
Here they brighten up an old open-air washing place.
Dandelions are not specuies like other plants. It is difficult to decide of which species the genus Taraxacum is made. Often Dandelions reproduce in an agamosperm way, this means that new plants grow from seeds that come from unfertilized oocytes, so they are clones from a mother plant. It can be that a whole population is descended from a single plant, so it is rather an asexual line than a species. If we considered every line as a species, there would be hundreds or even thousands of dandelion species. Another complication: some plants show sexual reproduction and it is possible to find hybrids next to lines.
For practical reasons, lines that resemble each other are grouped into sections.
Big chance the flowers in this picture are Taraxacum fasciatum, a line that is part of the Ruderalia, the most common section in Dordogne.
Blow!
If you look from nearby, you see the spiny tops of the seeds. Their colour varies with line/species.