Filago griffithii
Genus of flowering plants
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Filago griffithii is a species of flowering plant in the family Asteraceae. It is found from the eastern Mediterranean to central Asia and Pakistan.
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| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Eudicots |
| Clade: | Asterids |
| Order: | Asterales |
| Family: | Asteraceae |
| Genus: | Filago |
| Species: | F. griffithii |
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| Filago griffithii (A.Gray) Andrés-Sánchez & Galbany | |
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This species is an annual herb coated with appressed gray hairs. The stem is very short and the branches extend outward, making the plant squat in stature, sometimes forming a patch on the ground. The alternately arranged leaves are linear. The disc-shaped flower heads are clustered in glomerules 1 or 2 centimeters wide. There are layers of tiny woolly phyllaries around the flower head. It contains usually 4 tubular florets each no more than 1.5 millimeters long.[1] Cypselas from bisexual florets have deciduous white pappi, and those from female florets lack pappi.[2]