Family: Asteraceae Marsh Cudweed Gnaphalium uliginosum Flowering time: June-October. Annual. Native Can be vey common on open, damp and compacted acidic soil on paths, roadsides, heaths, arable and waste ground Branched stems covered with silver-grey woolly hairs bear yellow-brown, ray-less flower-heads with pointed brownish bracts. The leaves are alternate, linear-lanceolate, green above and grey-wooly beneath. Similar: Heath Cudweed, G. sylvaticum

Marsh Cudweed, Gnaphalium uliginosum
Holton Lee, Dorset. October 2012