Filago (plant)
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Scientific classification 
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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. |
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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[edit]
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[edit]
The following species are recognised in the genus Filago:[1]
- Filago aberrans Wagenitz
- Filago abyssinica Sch.Bip. ex A.Rich.
- Filago aegaea Wagenitz
- Filago anatolica (Boiss. & Heldr.) Chrtek & Holub
- Filago arenaria (Smoljan.) Chrtek & Holub
- Filago argentea (Pomel) Chrtek & Holub
- Filago arizonica A.Gray
- Filago arvensis L.
- Filago asterisciflora (Lam.) Sweet
- Filago californica Nutt. - California cottonrose
- Filago carpetana (Lange) Chrtek & Holub
- Filago castroviejoi Andrés-Sánchez, D.Gutt.Larr., E.Rico & M.M.Mart.Or
- Filago congesta DC.
- Filago contracta (Boiss.) Chrtek & Holub
- Filago cretensis Gand.
- Filago crocidion (Pomel) Chrtek & Holub
- Filago cuneata Lojac.
- Filago depressa A.Gray
- Filago desertorum Pomel
- Filago cuneata Lojac.
- Filago discolor (DC.) Andrés-Sánchez & Galbany
- Filago duriaei Coss. ex Lange
- Filago eriocephala Guss.
- Filago eriosphaera (Boiss. & Heldr.) Chrtek & Holub
- Filago filaginoides (Kar. & Kir.) Wagenitz
- Filago fuscescens Pomel
- Filago germanica (L.) Hudson - common cudweed
- Filago griffithii (A.Gray) Andrés-Sánchez & Galbany
- Filago hispanica (Degen & Hervier) Chrtek & Holub
- Filago hurdwarica (Wall. ex DC.) Wagenitz
- Filago inexpectata Wagenitz
- Filago libyaca (Alavi) Greuter
- Filago lojaconoi (Brullo) Greuter
- Filago longilanata (Maire & Wilczek) Greuter
- Filago lusitanica (Samp.) P.Silva
- Filago lutescens Jord. - red-tipped cudweed
- Filago mareotica Delile
- Filago mauritanica (Pomel) Dobignard
- Filago micropodioides Lange
- Filago neglecta (Soy.-Will.) DC.
- Filago nevadensis (Boiss.) Wagenitz & Greuter
- Filago palaestina (Boiss.) Chrtek & Holub
- Filago paradoxa Wagenitz
- Filago perpusilla (Boiss. & Heldr.) Chrtek & Holub
- Filago pertomentosa F.Ghahrem. & Akhundz.
- Filago petro-ianii Rita & Dittrich
- Filago prolifera Pomel
- Filago pygmaea L.
- Filago pyramidata L. - broad-leaved cudweed
- Filago ramosissima Lange
- Filago sahariensis Chrtek & Holub
- Filago tyrrhenica Chrtek & Holub
- Filago wagenitziana Bergmeier
References[edit]
- ^ a b "Filago Loefl. | Plants of the World Online | Kew Science". Plants of the World Online. Retrieved 2022-06-30.
- ^ Linnaeus, Carl von. 1753. Species Plantarum 2: 927 in Latin
- ^ Linnaeus, Carl von. 1753. Species Plantarum 2: 1199 addendum in Latin
- ^ Tropicos, Filago L.
- ^ Altervista Flora Italiana, genere Filago includes photos, drawings, + distribution maps
- ^ 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.
- ^ Wild Flowers Of the British Isles Website
- ^ Rose, Francis (1981). The Wild Flower Key. Frederick Warne & Co. pp. 377–380. ISBN 0-7232-2419-6.
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