Filago (plant)

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Filago
Filago arvensis2 W.jpg
Filago arvensis
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Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Asterids
Order: Asterales
Family: Asteraceae
Subfamily: Asteroideae
Tribe: Gnaphalieae
Genus: Filago
Loefl. ex L.
Synonyms [1]
List
  • AchariteriumBluff & Fingerh.
  • CymbolaenaSmoljan.
  • EvacidiumSmoljan.
  • EvacopsisPomel
  • EvaxGaertn.
  • Filagopsis (Batt.) Rouy
  • ×GiflifaChrtek & Holub
  • GifolaCass.
  • GifolariaCoss. ex Pomel
  • ImpiaBluff & Fingerh.
  • Oglifa(Cass.) Cass.
  • PseudevaxPomel

Filago is a genus of plants in the sunflower family, native from Europe and northern Africa to Mongolia, Nepal, and Macaronesia. They are sometimes called cottonroses or cudweeds. [2] [3] [4] [5] [6]

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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 the 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

The following species are recognised in the genus Filago: [1]

Filago arvensis Filago arvensis3 W.jpg
Filago arvensis

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References

  1. 1 2 "Filago Loefl. | Plants of the World Online | Kew Science". Plants of the World Online. Retrieved 2022-06-30.
  2. Linnaeus, Carl von. 1753. Species Plantarum 2: 927 in Latin
  3. Linnaeus, Carl von. 1753. Species Plantarum 2: 1199 addendum in Latin
  4. Tropicos, Filago L.
  5. Altervista Flora Italiana, genere Filago includes photos, drawings, + distribution maps
  6. Flora of China Vol. 20-21 Page 774 絮菊属 xu ju shu Filago Linnaeus, Sp. Pl. 2: 927, 1199, [add. post indicem]. 1753.
  7. Wild Flowers Of the British Isles Website
  8. Rose, Francis (1981). The Wild Flower Key. Frederick Warne & Co. pp. 377–380. ISBN   0-7232-2419-6.