Date Picture Taken: July 22, 2008
| Scientific name: | Gnaphalium sylvaticum L. | |
| Synonym name: | Omalotheca sylvaticum (L.) Sch. Bip. & F. W. Schultz | |
| Swedish name: | Skogsnoppa | |
| German name: | Wald-Ruhrkraut | |
| Nederlandse naam: | Bosdroogbloem | |
| English name: | Wood cudweed, Heath Cudweed | |
| Family: | Asteraceae / Compositae, Korgblommiga växter |
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Date Picture Taken: July 22, 2008 |
| Life form: | Perennial herb | |
| Stems: | Solitary; upright, not branched, tomentose | |
| Leaves: | Alternate, basal leaves elongate, green on top, white-felted beneath. Upper leaves stalkless, linear. Leaves with one vein, rarely also with two unclear lateral veins, dull green and sparsely hairy above, densely white-downy beneath. | |
| Flowers: | Pale brown tubular florets grouped together into small flower-like heads (capitula), 5–7 mm long. Outer florets pistillate, the few disc-florets bisexual. Corolla of 5 fused petals. Calyx modified into a ring of hairs (a pappus). Stamens 5, anthers united into a tube around the style. Pistil of 2 fused carpels, style solitary, stigma 2-lobed. Capitulum subtended by involucral bracts which are glossy and have a brownish, rarely dark brown tip, inner equalling the florets. Capitula borne in a spike, the whole inflorescence usu. longer than a third of the stem. | |
| Flowering Period: | July, August | |
| Fruits: | Achene 1-5mm, hispid; pappus reddish | |
| Habitat: | Forest,thicket, heath, coast, farmland, settlements |
Date Picture Taken: July 22, 2008 Derivation of the botanical name: Gnaphalium from Greek gnaphalon, "a lock of wool," describing these plants as floccose-wooly. sylvaticum, sylvan, "of or growing in woods".
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