''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. The name cudweed comes from the fact that they were once used to feed cows that had lost the ability to chew the

cud Cud is a portion of food that returns from a ruminant's stomach to the mouth to be chewed for the second time. More precisely, it is a bolus of semi-degraded food regurgitated from the reticulorumen of a ruminant. Cud is produced during the phy ...

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Logfia ''Logfia'' is a genus of herbaceous plants in the tribe Gnaphalieae of the family Asteraceae, known as cottonrose.

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Description

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, 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

The following species are recognised in the genus ''Filago'': Filago arvensis3 W

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Jepson Manual Treatment
Gnaphalieae Asteraceae genera {{Gnaphaliae-stub