A silent

sign of spring is the spring draba (also called shadflower, nailwort or whitlow grass, as it was used to treat whitlow infection of the finger tips). It often goes unnoticed, because it is so small that you basically have to kneel down to see it, and I don't remember seeing it listed with primulas, crocuses, aconites or hellbore as an early spring flower. Quite pretty if you ask me with its bifid petals.