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.^{[2][3][4][5][6]}

Quick Facts Filago, Scientific classification ...

Filago
Filago arvensis
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
Clade:	Tracheophytes
Clade:	Angiosperms
Clade:	Eudicots
Clade:	Asterids
Order:	Asterales
Family:	Asteraceae
Subfamily:	Asteroideae
Tribe:	Gnaphalieae
Genus:	Filago Loefl. ex L.
Synonyms[1]
List Achariterium Bluff & Fingerh. Cymbolaena Smoljan. Evacidium Smoljan. Evacopsis Pomel Evax Gaertn. Filagopsis (Batt.) Rouy ×Giflifa Chrtek & Holub Gifola Cass. Gifolaria Coss. ex Pomel Impia Bluff & Fingerh. Oglifa (Cass.) Cass. Pseudevax Pomel

Close

The name cudweed comes from the fact that they were once used to feed cows that had lost the ability to chew the cud.^[7]

Several species are sometimes treated as members of the genus Logfia.

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,^[8] 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.

The following species are recognised in the genus Filago:^[1]