Filago anatolica

الوصف النباتي

الأوراق

Leaves: Alternate, sessile, linear-lanceolate, 5–15 × 1–2 mm, entire, acute, densely white-woolly on both surfaces, giving the plant a silvery aspect.

الأزهار

Inflorescence & flowers: Capitula numerous, small (3–5 mm), clustered into dense terminal glomerules or short spikes. Involucral bracts ovate, tomentose, with scarious, yellowish or brownish tips. Florets all tubular, yellowish; marginal florets female, central ones bisexual.

الثمار والبذور

Fruit: Achenes minute, cylindrical, glabrous or faintly puberulent; pappus reduced to a short crown of fine bristles.

مواسم النبات

الفنلوجية

Phenology: Flowers and fruits from April to June.

الانتشار الموثق

Lebanese distribution: Reported by Mouterde (as Filago lutescens var. anatolica ) from the Beqaa Valley and Anti-Lebanon — particularly around Dahr el-Baïdar, Zahlé, and Ras Baalbeck; locally common in arid, montane steppe zones.

Native range: Iran, Iraq, Lebanon, Syria, Transcaucasus, Türkiye (POWO).

الارتفاع الموثق

الارتفاع

800 m

لمحة نباتية

بنية النبات

Life-form & habit: Annual herb, 5–20 cm tall, woolly-grey throughout, forming small, compact tufts or mats. Stems erect to ascending, simple or sparingly branched from the base, densely lanate with interwoven, cottony hairs.

دورة الحياة

حولية

الفصيلة والتصنيف

الاسم العلمي المقبول

Filago anatolica

الفصيلة

نجمية

نباتات من الفصيلة نفسها

Astartoseris triquetra

قُرطُم نحيل

Carthamus tenuis (Boiss. & Blanche) Bornm.

القنطريون الكحلي

Centaurea cyanoides Berggr. & Wahlenb.

قنطريون أيبيري

Centaurea iberica Spreng.