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Common Cudweed, Filago germanica Family: Asteraceae
Common Cudweed
Filago germanica
(Filago vulgaris)

Flowering time: July-September. Annual. Native

Declining on dry, open, acidic to neutral soils on heathy grassland, roadsides, arable and waste ground and in quarries and sand dunes.

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     Common Cudweed, Filago vulgaris

Common Cudweed, Filago vulgaris
Common Cudweed, Filago germanica (Filago vulgaris)
, Dorset. 2012

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