Filago (plant) explained

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.^{[1] [2] [3] [4] [5]}

Notes and References

1. https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/358948#page/369/mode/1up Linnaeus, Carl von. 1753. Species Plantarum 2: 927
2. https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/358948#page/641/mode/1up Linnaeus, Carl von. 1753. Species Plantarum 2: 1199
3. http://www.tropicos.org/Name/40009331 Tropicos, Filago L.
4. http://luirig.altervista.org/flora/taxa/floraspecie.php?genere=Filago Altervista Flora Italiana, genere Filago
5. http://www.ukwildflowers.com/index.htm Wild Flowers Of the British Isles Website
6. Book: Rose, Francis. Francis Rose . The Wild Flower Key . 1981 . Frederick Warne & Co. 0-7232-2419-6 . 377–380.
7. Web site: Filago Loefl. Plants of the World Online Kew Science . 2022-06-30 . Plants of the World Online . en.
8. http://www.efloras.org/florataxon.aspx?flora_id=2&taxon_id=112780 Flora of China Vol. 20-21 Page 774 絮菊属 xu ju shu Filago Linnaeus, Sp. Pl. 2: 927, 1199, [add. post indicem<nowiki>]. 1753. ]

   The name cudweed comes from the fact that they were once used to feed cows that had lost the ability to chew the cud.^[5]

   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,^[6] 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:^[7]

   External links

   • • Jepson Manual Treatment