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Filago (plant)

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Filago
Filago arvensis
Scientific classification Edit this classification
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
  • Achariterium Bluff & Fingerh.
  • Cymbolaena Smoljan.
  • Evacidium Smoljan.
  • Evacopsis Pomel
  • Evax Gaertn.
  • Filagopsis (Batt.) Rouy
  • ×Giflifa Chrtek & Holub
  • Gifola Cass.
  • Gifolaria Coss. ex Pomel
  • Impia Bluff & Fingerh.
  • Oglifa (Cass.) Cass.
  • Pseudevax Pomel

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]

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

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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

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

Filago arvensis

References

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  1. ^ a b "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.
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