Filago (genus)

cottonroses cudweeds
Filago arvensis
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
(unranked):	Angiosperms
(unranked):	Eudicots
(unranked):	Asterids
Order:	Asterales
Family:	Asteraceae
Tribe:	Inuleae[1]
Genus:	Filago Loefl. ex L.
Synonyms[1]
Calymmandra Torr. & A.Gray Xerotium Bluff & Fingerh. Filagopsis (Batt.) Rouy Impia Bluff & Fingerh. Gifola Cass. Pseudevax Pomel Evacopsis Pomel ×Giflifa Chrtek & Holub Achariterium Bluff & Fingerh. Filaginopsis Torr. & A.Gray Evax Gaertn. Gifolaria Coss. ex Pomel Oglifa (Cass.) Cass.

Filago is a genus of plants in the sunflower family, native to Europe, Asia, and North Africa. They are sometimes called cottonroses or cudweeds.^{[2][3][4][5][6]}

The name cudweed comes from the fact that they were once used to feed cows that had lost the ability to chew the cud.^[7]

Several species are sometimes treated as members of genus Logfia.

Description

They bear woolly, cottony heads of flowers. They have narrow strap-shaped untoothed leaves. The flower heads are small,gathered into dense, stalkless clusters. The fruits have a hairy pappus,^[8] or modified calyx, the part of an individual disk, ray or ligule floret surrounding the base of the corolla, in flower heads of the plant family Asteraceae.

Species^[1]

Photos

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  Filago arvensis

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  Filago minima, Small cudweed

References

External links

• "Filago". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. 
• Jepson Manual Treatment

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