Filago pyramidata

Ascending to erect, greyish-cottony annual to c. 20 cm high, simple or divaricately branched. Leaves c. spathulate, obovate or oblanceolate, 7–16 mm long, 2–5 mm wide, both surfaces densely cottony. Clusters of capitula c. 8–12 mm diam., the surrounding leaves to c. the length of the clusters; capitular bracts cottony along midribs, the straight to recurved awn-like apices of the middle and outer bracts c. 1.5–2 mm long; female florets 5–11; bisexual florets 4–7. Cypselas ellipsoid-cylindric, c. 0.8 mm long; pappus of bisexual florets c. 2 mm long. Flowers c. Nov.