Family: Asteraceae Filago vulgaris     *     Common Cudweed Flowering time: July-September. Annual. Habitat: Declining on sandy, +/- acidic grasslands, roadsides, arable and waste ground. RDB-Near Threatened Stems are +/- branched at base bearing dense, terminal flowerheads with linear, five-rowed, keeled bracts. The linear leaves are wavy-edged and white-woolly without a mucronate point at their tips. Height 5-30cm Similar: Small Cudweed, F. minima

     



Common Cudweed, Filago vulgaris
, Dorset. 2012