title: Logfia filaginoides
text: # Logfia filaginoides
  
  Logfia filaginoides (formerly Filago californica), also called herba impia or cottonrose, is a small annual plant in the family Asteraceae, found in the Southwestern United States.
  
  ## Range and habitat
  
  It grows throughout Southern California to Texas and Mexico. In the Mojave Desert, it grows in creosote bush scrub and Joshua tree woodlands.
  
  ## Growth pattern
  
  It is a hairy, erect, annual plant growing between 2" and 12" tall.
  
  ## Leaves and stems
  
  Its 1/2- to 3/4-inch-long leaves are attached to the stems without a little stem (petiole) at the bottom of the leaf (sessile).
  
  ## Flowers
  
  The 1/8-inch flower heads are surrounded by upper leaves of about the same length as the head. Each head has tiny reddish-purple disk flowers with the outer 8–10 being all female.
  
  ## Fruits
  
  Fruits are tiny, flattened achenes with a ring of pappus bristles, falling off as a unit.
  
  