BROAD-LEAVED CUDWEED
Filago pyramidata
(Formerly: Filago spathulata) and before that Gifola spathulata)
Daisy & Dandelion Family [Asteraceae] 
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Daisy & Dandelion Family [Asteraceae]
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| 1st Sept 2012, Lane Quarry, Highdown, IOW. | Photo: (CC by 2.0) Geoff Toone |
| The leaves are broadest beyond halfway on Broad-leaved Cudweed [and also on Red-Tipped Cudweed] (whereas they are wider at their base on the otherwise similar Common Cudweed). |
| 23rd June 2012, Ranscombe, IOW. | Photo: (CC by 2.0) Geoff Toone |
| The leaves at the top also often reach higher(not all, just between 4 to 5 of them) than do the flowers on Broad-leaved Cudweed (whereas zero to 1 or maybe 2 leaves only overtop the flowers on Red-Tipped Cudweed). |
| 1st Sept 2012, Lane Quarry, Highdown, IOW. | Photo: (CC by 2.0) Geoff Toone |
| 5th Sept 2012, pit, Tennyson Down, IOW. | SF |
| 1st Sept 2012, Lane Quarry, Highdown, IOW. | Photo: (CC by 2.0) Geoff Toone |
| 1st Sept 2012, Lane Quarry, Highdown, IOW. | Photo: (CC by 2.0) Geoff Toone |
| The outer phyllaries have long yellowish points which recurve away from the flower on Broad-leaved Cudweed (whereas on Red-Tipped Cudweed the points atop the phyllaries are erect and red on Red-Tipped Cudweed). |
| 19th July 2017, Sonning Chalkpit, IOW. | Photo: (CC by 2.0) Geoff Toone |
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Broas-leaved Cudweed is usually covered in white woolly hairs (but on Red-Tipped Cudweed they are yellowish-woolly).
On the lower bunch of flowers can be seen a flower directed straight towards the camera and surrounded by 5 distinct pointed phyllaries. The flowers on the outside are female, whereas those on the inner are bisexual. The inner bisexual flowers have wider corollas than the outer female flowers. |
| 19th July 2017, Sonning Chalkpit, IOW. | Photo: (CC by 2.0) Geoff Toone |
| Stem leaves are large than the shorter sepals/leaves(?) surrounding the flowers. |
| 19th July 2017, Sonning Chalkpit, IOW. | Photo: (CC by 2.0) Geoff Toone |
| A large stem leaf sticking out to the right; shorter and thinner sepals(?) surrounding each flowerhead. Lots of white hairs everywhere. |
| 1st Sept 2012, Lane Quarry, Highdown, IOW. | Photo: (CC by 2.0) Geoff Toone |
| The outer phyllaries have long yellowish points which recurve away from the flower. The flower, surrounded by phyllaries, is gourd-shaped. |
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Some similarities to : many other Cudweeds such as Jersey Cudweed (Gnaphalium luteoalbum), Highland Cudweed (Gnaphalium norvegicum),
Some similarities to : Common Cudweed (Filago germanica) and to Red-Tipped Cudweed (Filago lutescens) but see text for differentiation between the three. Uniquely identifiable characteristics Distinguishing Features : see captions
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 Filago
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pyramidata
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Asteraceae
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 Filago (Cudweeds) |
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Daisy & Dandelion Family [Asteraceae]
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