Gifola

Plant Characteristics
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Cultivation

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Scientific Names

Read about Gifola in the Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture
Gifola (anagram of Filago). Compositae. About 10 species of small woolly composites, of no horticultural significance, in warm and temperate countries. G. germanica, Dum. (Filago germanica, Linn.), the Cotton-Rose, is a cottony annual plant somewhat like leontopodium, which latter is now and then collected by tourists and dyed like immortelles. It was called Herba impia by the old herbalists, because a new generation of clustered heads rises out of the parent cluster as if undutifully exalting itself. It is native in Eu.( and has become naturalized in E. N. Amer. in dry fields. St. erect, 6-18 in.: lvs. lanceolate, upright, crowded: heads small, rayless. ^CH The above text is from the Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture. It may be out of date, but still contains valuable and interesting information which can be incorporated into the remainder of the article. Click on "Collapse" in the header to hide this text.

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