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The dwarf Edelweiss ( Filago pygmaea ) is a plant of the genus Filzkräuter ( Filago ) within the family of Compositae (Asteraceae).
description
Vegetative characteristics
The dwarf albumen grows as an annual herbaceous plant and reaches heights of 1 to 4 centimeters. It is branched at the base and hairy gray-tomentose. The stem leaves are 7-10 millimeters long and 3 millimeters wide. At the end of the stalk sits a rosette of protruding, spatulate or egg-shaped leaves; it is blunt or pointed, protruding and 5–15 millimeters long and 2–5 millimeters wide.
Generative characteristics
These leaves surround a 5 to 35 millimeter wide cluster of sitting flower heads. The more than 30 bracts are brownish yellow, awned and bare. They are 3–4.3 millimeters long and 1.5–1.8 millimeters wide and lanceolate-egg-shaped. The flower heads contain inconspicuous tubular flowers that are about half to a third as long as the surrounding leaves of the rosette.
The flowering period extends from April to June.
ecology
The summer dry season is survived as seeds.
Occurrence
The dwarf elweiss occurs in the Mediterranean region near the coast in grasslands and garigues . Its distribution area originally includes Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Libya, Portugal, Spain, the Balearic Islands, France, Corsica, Sardinia, Sicily, Malta, Italy, Croatia, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Albania, Montenegro, Greece, Crete, the Aegean Sea, Cyprus, European and Asian Turkey, Syria and Lebanon. In the Canary Islands, the originality is doubtful.
Taxonomy
The first publication of Filago pygmaea was in 1753 by Carl von Linné . A synonym of Filago pygmaea L. is Evax pygmaea (L.) bread.
swell
- Peter and Ingrid Schönfelder: The new cosmos of Mediterranean flora. Franckh-Kosmos Verlag, Stuttgart, 2008, ISBN 978-3-440-10742-3 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Werner Greuter (2006+): Compositae (pro parte majore). - In: W. Greuter & E. von Raab-Straube (eds.): Compositae. Euro + Med Plantbase - the information resource for Euro-Mediterranean plant diversity. Datasheet Filago pygmaea In: Euro + Med Plantbase - the information resource for Euro-Mediterranean plant diversity.
