Cudweeds & Rayless Fleabanes

Pygmy Cudweed Eastern Phagnalon Scentless Curry-plant Narrow-leaved Cudweed



Daisy Family - Asteraceae

Narrow-leaved Cudweed      Logfia gallica

Native throughout the Mediterranean Region. Widespread on open and disturbed ground.

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Pygmy Cudweed      Filago pygmaea

Native throughout the Mediterranean Region. Widespread on open and disturbed ground, often forming small colonies in dry, stony places.

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Scentless Curry-plant      Helichrysum stoechas ssp. barrelieri

Native throughout the Mediterranean Region, with the subspecies barrelieri occurring in the central and eastern Mediterranean and the nominate subspecies to the west. Widespread on open ground and in frigana.

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Flowerhead
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Eastern Phagnalon      Phagnalon graecum

Native in the Balearics and in the central and eastern Mediterranean Region. Common on rock faces and old stone walls.

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Argentine Fleabane      Erigeron bonariensis

(Hairy Fleabane) Native to Central and South America. A weed of cultivated places and roadsides and rapidly increasing in the Mediterranean Region and many other areas.

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Pyramidal Fleabane      Erigeron sumatrensis

(Guernsey Fleabane) Native to Central and South America. A weed of cultivation and disturbed ground in urban areas.

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Basal rosette
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Cottonweed      Achillea maritima

Native in coastal sands along the South-west coasts of Europe and the Mediterranean and Black Sea coasts.

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