Citation: Brot., Fl. Lusit. 1:363 (1804).

Synonymy: Filago pygmaea L., Sp. Pl. 927 (1753).

Common name: None

Description:
Annual herb to 5 cm high; stem erect, simple or branched from the base, cobwebby; leaves oblanceolate to obovate, obtuse to apiculate, 4-12 mm long, 2-4 mm wide, whitish-woolly on both sides, increasing in size up the stem.

Capitula straw-coloured, in a terminal hemispherical cluster 5-35 mm diam.; involucral bracts broadly lanceolate, 3-4 mm long, keeled, tapered into somewhat recurved bristles c. 1 mm long, subglabrous, appressed in the fruiting head which is shed as a unit; female florets c. 5; male florets 3-5.

Achenes c. 0.8 mm long, very sparsely papillose, brownish.

Distribution:    Native to southern Europe. Conservation status: naturalised Flowering time: Oct.

SA Distribution Map based on current data relating to specimens held in the State Herbarium of South Australia

Biology: No text

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