Filago pyramidata L.
Family: COMPOSITAE (ASTERACEAE)
Genus: Filago
Catalan common name: Herba de borm.
Province distribution: Alacant. Balearic Islands. Barcelona. Castelló. Girona. Lleida. Tarragona. València.
Distribution in the islands: Mallorca. Menorca. Ibiza. Formentera. Cabrera.
General distribution (Phytogeography): Some regions
IUCN Category: Least concern
Flowering time: JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Life-forms: Terophyte.
Habitats: Cultivated fields, path and road sides, disturbed zones. Therophytic calicole fields. Therophytics communities.
Characteristics: A small annual herb with leaves and stems covered in long and silky hairs which give it an ashy hue. It can have an erect stem, branched at the top, or it can be prostrate along the substrate. It forms pyramid-shaped capitula - which are very small and covered with hair too ? and which have five well-defined angles. Several of these capitula can be found together forming glomerules on the stem bifurcations and at the top. It can be mistaken for Filago congesta, but this is often found in trodden places and is always at ground level with spherical glomerules. Filago pyramidata lives in moors and small terophitic meadows, it flowers during spring.