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.
Wim, GGr. Also naturalised SA. Native to southern Europe, northern Africa and south-western Asia. Known in Victoria only from shallow, rocky soils on south-western slopes of Mt Arapiles where first collected in 1968.
Source:
Short, P.S. (1999). Filago. In: Walsh, N.G.; Entwisle, T.J., Flora of Victoria Vol. 4, Cornaceae to Asteraceae, pp. 828–829. Inkata Press, Melbourne.
