Taxonomy: Fam. Compositae// Genus: Filago // Species: Filago arvensis L.
Determined according to the botanical key provided by Holub (1976 in Tutin et al.) as Logfia arvensis (L.) J. Holub (syn. Filago arvensis L.). The accepted name in the Euro+Med PlantBase (Greuter, 2006+) is Filago arvensis L.
Lifeform: Annual plant. Therophyte according to the Raunkiaer system.
Distribution: Native from Europe to West Siberia and West Himalaya, Canary Islands, Morocco according to the distribution information provided by the Plants of the World Online portal (Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew).
Habitat: Usually found in open and dry habitats- rocks, rocky terrains with shallow soil, sandy soil, disturbed ground, roadsides.
Flowering period: Summer (JUN, JUL, AUG).
Locality: ridge between the gorges of the Golema and Orizarska Rivers. Date: 05.06.2021.
Filago arvensis – habit in habitat. Mountain ridge between the gorges of “Golema” River and “Orizarska” River, 05.06.2021. Photo by Trajche Dimitrovski.Filago arvensis – habit. Mountain ridge between the gorges of “Golema” River and “Orizarska” River, 05.06.2021. Photo by Trajche Dimitrovski. Filago arvensis – stem and branches with clusters of capitulums. Mountain ridge between the gorges of “Golema” River and “Orizarska” River, 05.06.2021. Photo by Trajche Dimitrovski. Filago arvensis – clusters with capitulums. Mountain ridge between the gorges of “Golema” River and “Orizarska” River, 05.06.2021. Photo by Trajche Dimitrovski. Filago arvensis – clusters with capitulums. Mountain ridge between the gorges of “Golema” River and “Orizarska” River, 05.06.2021. Photo by Trajche Dimitrovski. Filago arvensis – clusters with capitulums. Mountain ridge between the gorges of “Golema” River and “Orizarska” River, 05.06.2021. Photo by Trajche Dimitrovski. Filago arvensis – clusters of capitulums. Mountain ridge between the gorges of “Golema” River and “Orizarska” River, 05.06.2021. Photo by Trajche Dimitrovski. Filago arvensis – fruiting capitulums. Mountain ridge between the gorges of “Golema” River and “Orizarska” River, 05.06.2021. Photo by Trajche Dimitrovski. Filago arvensis – stem with cauline leaves. Mountain ridge between the gorges of “Golema” River and “Orizarska” River, 05.06.2021. Photo by Trajche Dimitrovski. Filago arvensis – lower part of plant – stem with dried cauline leaves. Mountain ridge between the gorges of “Golema” River and “Orizarska” River, 05.06.2021. Photo by Trajche Dimitrovski. Filago arvensis – cauline leaves. Mountain ridge between the gorges of “Golema” River and “Orizarska” River, 05.06.2021. Photo by Trajche Dimitrovski. Filago arvensis – cauline leaves. Mountain ridge between the gorges of “Golema” River and “Orizarska” River, 05.06.2021. Photo by Trajche Dimitrovski. Filago arvensis – cauine leaf. Mountain ridge between the gorges of “Golema” River and “Orizarska” River, 05.06.2021. Photo by Trajche Dimitrovski.
Filago arvensis. Greuter, W. (2006+): Compositae (pro parte majore). – In: Greuter, W. & Raab-Straube, E. von (ed.): Compositae. Euro+Med Plantbase – the information resource for Euro-Mediterranean plant diversity. Published on the Internet http://ww2.bgbm.org/EuroPlusMed/PTaxonDetail.asp?NameId=123442&PTRefFk=7000000 [Accessed 06.07.2021].
Holub, J. 1976. Logfia Cass. Tutin, T. G., Heywood, V. H., Burges, N. A., Moore, D. M., Valentine, D. H., Walters, S. M. & Webb, D. A. (eds.), Flora Europaea. Volume 4. Plantaginaceae to Compositae (and Rubiaceae). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 123–124.
