Many Stem Cudweed

polycaulon: with many stems

Annual herb, branching from the base, up to 25 cm tall but often flowering when only a few cm tall. All parts more or less densely covered in white cobweb-like wool. Leaves sessile or shortly petiolate, spathulate, 1-7 cm long, mucronate at the apex; margin entire. Inflorescence in a terminal spike with leaf-like bracts. Involucral bracts c. 3-seriate, oblong, c. 2 mm long, pale buff or purple-tinged. Florets small, numerous, whitish.

Widespread in Asia, Australia, West Indies, Brazil, Egypt, Tropical and South Africa