Marsh cudweed

Gnaphalium uliginosum

Family: Asteraceae Genus: Gnaphalium Species: uliginosum

Synonyms: Filaginella tranzschelii, Gnaphalium uliginosum var. glabrum, Helichrysum uliginosum, Gnaphalium mandshuricum, Gnaphalium ruricola, Gnaphalium uliginosum var. nudum, Gnaphalium castaneum, Gnaphalium thomsonii, Filago pilularis, Filaginella baicalensis, Gnaphalium humifusum, Gnaphalium baicalense, Gnaphalium laevissimum, Filaginella lasiocarpa, Gnaphalium uliginosum var. muricatum, Gnaphalium uliginosum var. lasiocarpum, Filaginella malzii, Filaginella nuda, Gnaphalium uliginosum var. tomentosum, Gnaphalium wirtgenii, Gnaphalium uliginosum f. condensatum, Gnaphalium tranzschelii, Filaginella kasachstanica, Filago uliginosa, Filaginella mandshurica, Dasyanthus uliginosus, Gnaphalium aquaticum, Gnaphalium nudum, Filaginella uliginosa subsp. kasachstanica, Gnaphalium uliginosum subsp. nudum, Filaginella uliginosa, Gnaphalium kasachstanicum, Gnaphalodes evacinum

Marsh cudweed (en)

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Botanical Description

Gnaphalium uliginosum, the marsh cudweed (now often Laphangium uliginosum), is a small grey-woolly annual herb of the family Asteraceae growing 4 to 20 cm tall. The much-branched, spreading to ascending stems and the narrow, oblong leaves are densely covered in soft white-felted hairs, giving the whole plant a greyish appearance. The small flower heads are clustered tightly at the tips of the branches and surrounded by the uppermost leaves, with brownish papery involucral bracts; the florets are pale and inconspicuous. It flowers from summer into autumn. Native across Europe, Asia and naturalised in North America, marsh cudweed grows on damp, often disturbed, acidic or compacted ground such as wet field margins, tracks, pond edges, ditches and trampled paths that flood seasonally.

Native Region: Alaska, Albania, Alberta, Algeria, Altay, Amur, Austria, Baltic States, Belarus, Belgium, British Columbia, Bulgaria, Buryatiya, Central European Rus, China North-Central, Chita, Colorado, Connecticut, Corse, Czechoslovakia, Delaware, Denmark, East European Russia, Egypt, Finland, France, Germany, Great Britain, Greece, Greenland, Hungary, Iceland, Idaho, Illinois, Inner Mongolia, Iowa, Ireland, Irkutsk, Italy, Japan, Kansas, Kazakhstan, Kentucky, Khabarovsk, Korea, Krasnoyarsk, Krym, Lebanon-Syria, Maine, Manchuria, Manitoba, Maryland, Masachusettes, Minnesota, Mongolia, Montana, Netherlands, New Brunswick, New Guinea, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Newfoundland, North European Russi, Northwest European R, Norway, Nova Scotia, Ohio, Ontario, Oregon, Pakistan, Pennsylvania, Poland, Portugal, Primorye, Prince Edward I., Québec, Rhode I., Romania, Saskatchewan, Sicilia, South Dakota, South European Russi, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Tibet, Transcaucasus, Turkey, Turkey-in-Europe, Ukraine, Utah, Vermont, Virginia, Washington, West Himalaya, West Siberia, West Virginia, Wisconsin, Wyoming, Xinjiang, Yakutskiya, Yugoslavia, Yukon

Cultural & Historical Context

Traditional American Uses

None Documented

Chemistry & External Identifiers

Trefle ID

18490

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