Filago vulgaris, Lam.

Tutin, T. G., Heywood, V. H., Burges, N. A., Moore, D. M., Valentine, D. H., Walters, S. M. & Webb, D. A., 1976, Flora Europaea. Volume 4. Plantaginaceae to Compositae (and Rubiaceae), Cambridge University Press : 121

1. F. vulgaris Lam. , Fl. Fr. 2: 61 (1779)

( F. germanica L. , non Hudson, F. canescens Jordan , F. eriocephala auct., non Guss.).

Plant greyish-white. Stem 5-35(-40) cm, erect, more or less regularly branched above the middle. Leaves 12-20(-30) x 1-3 (-4) mm, linear-lanceolate to lanceolate, more or less undulate. Capitula 5x1-6 mm, more or less terete, in dense, globose clusters of (15—)20—35(—40); clusters 10-12 mm wide, not overtopped by subtending leaves. Involucral bracts 4-4-5 x 1-1 mm, lanceolate, straight in fruit, yellowish, usually red-tinged, with a long yellow arista. Inner female florets 20-25; hermaphrodite (l-)2-3(-4). Achene O-5-O-8 x 0-2 mm, oblong to ovoid, brown. 5., W. & C. Europe, extending north-eastwards to S. Sweden and White Russia. All except Fa Fe Hb Is Lu No Rs (N, B, E) Sb; casual in some of these.