Narrow-leaved cudweed
Logfia gallica
Family · Asteraceae · Harmless
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The grey woolly little plant that goes entirely unnoticed in dry fields, with needle-fine leaves and heads hidden in the forks of the branches.
Fields and pasture · Roadsides and waste ground · Dunes and sand · Pine woods
Also known asFrench cudweed
How to tell it
A plant ten to thirty centimetres, covered in white wool, forked in its branching. Very narrow long, almost needle-like leaves standing well above the heads. The heads are minute and clustered in small balls at the forks, hidden among the leaves, and you have to look to find them.
What it is confused with
No dangerous lookalikes known in the Iberian Peninsula.
What it is for
No use
It is here because it is among the most frequent and least noticed plants in dry Portuguese fields, and because knowing that a grey woolly thing has a name changes how you look at fallow ground.
Where it occurs
Each square is an area with recorded observations of this plant. The lighter background is the set of areas where any of the entries has been observed, and serves as a reference. Note what this is not: it is not where the plant lives, it is where people record it, so trails and towns always look fuller than the mountains. Data from GBIF.
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