Flora of Israel: Woollyhead Cudweed

Filago eriocephala, Filago germanica, Filago vulgaris,
Woollyhead Cudweed, Hebrew: פילגון צמיר , Arabic: قُطَّيْنَة صوفِيَّة الرُّؤوس


Scientific name:		Filago eriocephala Guss.
Synonym name:		Filago germanica L.,non Huds., Filago vulgaris Lam.
Common name:		Woollyhead Cudweed
Hebrew name:		פילגון צמיר
العربية, Arabic name:		قُطَّيْنَة صوفِيَّة الرُّؤوس
Family:		Compositae / Asteraceae, Sunflower Family, מורכבים

_{Location: Netanya, Sergeants Grove}


Life form:		Annual
Stems:		greyish white plant; 10-20cm, erect or rarely procumbent
Leaves:		Alternate, simple, smooth margin
Inflorescence:		Capitula in ovoid or oblong clusters of 30-50
Flowers:		Membranous, green
Fruits / pods:		Achene, oblong-obovoid, brownish
Flowering Period:		March, April
Habitat:		Batha & Garigue
Distribution:		Mediterranean maquis and forest
Chorotype:		Mediterranean
Summer shedding:		Ephemeral

_{Location: Netanya, Sergeants Grove}
Derivation of the botanical name:

Filago, Latin filum, thread, referring to the hairs.

eriocephala, Greek erion, wool; cephale, a head, the heads after flowering become woolly,
germanica, from Germany.
vulgaris, common.

The standard author abbreviation Guss. is used to indicate Giovanni Gussone (1787 – 1866), an Italian academic and botanist.
The standard author abbreviation L. is used to indicate Carl Linnaeus (1707 – 1778), a Swedish botanist, physician, and zoologist, the father of modern taxonomy.
The standard author abbreviation Huds. is used to indicate William Hudson (1730 – 1793), a British botanist and apothecary based in London.
The standard author abbreviation Lam. is used to indicate Jean-Baptiste Lamarck (1744 – 1829), a French naturalist.

_{Location: Netanya, Sergeants Grove}