Classification
 Nomenclature
Scientific Name:
Logfia gallica (L.) Coss. & Germ. (1843)
Synonymy:
  • Filago gallica L.
Vernacular Name(s):
French cudweed
 Description

Erect or ascending annual herb, 5–30 cm tall. Stems tomentose, branched at base or only above to form infl. Cauline lvs tomentose on lower surface, densely tomentose on upper, linear, acute, apetiolate and broad-based, somewhat involute, (5)–12–25 × 0.5–1–(1.5) mm. Capitula c. 1–2 mm diam., in sessile clusters of 2–8–(12), terminal or in axils of branches; lvs subtending clusters linear-lanceolate, clearly exceeding clusters. Involucral bracts tomentose, c. 1.5 mm long. Outer scales tomentose outside, herbaceous with membranous margin, c. 3 mm long, keeled at base; inner scales almost glabrous, membranous, obtuse to acute at apex, c. 3 mm long. Disc yellowish. Achenes of outer ♀ florets glabrous, 0.8 mm long; achenes of inner florets minutely and sparsely papillate, 0.5–0.6 mm long; pappus caducous, denticulate, free at base.

[From: Webb et al. (1988) Flora of New Zealand. Volume 4.]

 Biostatus
Exotic
 Phenology

Flowering: Nov.–Jan.

 Bibliography
Andrés-Sánchez, S.; Galbany-Casals, M.; Rico, E.; Montserrat Martínez-Ortega, M. 2011: A nomenclatural treatment for Logfia Cass. and Filago L. (Asteraceae) as newly circumscribed: Typification of several names. Taxon 60(2): 572–576.