Irish wildflowers BSBI map

Heath Cudweed, Omalotheca sylvatica, Gnamhlus móna
Photographs: Co. Wexford

Heath Cudweed
Omalotheca sylvatica (Gnaphalium sylvaticum)
Gnamhlus móna
Family: Asteraceae

Flowering July - September. Short-lived perennial. Native.

Leafy, erect, narrow spikes of pinkish-brown flowerheads, the florets with blunt involucral bracts. The basal rosette and lower leaves are stalked and all leaves are hairless above, undersides white-woolyand have a single vein. Short, leafy runners. Height 8-50cm.

Very rare and decreasing with few remaining sites in Ireland on dry, acidic, sandy or gravelly tracks, forestry rides and heaths.

Similar: Marsh Cudweed, Gnaphalium uliginosum.

Heath Cudweed, Omalotheca sylvatica, Gnamhlus móna

Heath Cudweed, Omalotheca sylvatica, Gnamhlus móna
Heath Cudweed, Omalotheca sylvatica (Gnaphalium sylvaticum), Gnamhlus móna

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