Big-head Evax - Evax prolifera
Other Names:
Diaperia prolifera, Filago prolifera
Gray-woolly, taprooted annual. Stems erect, 2–10 cm, simple or branched at the base. Leaves: basal small, deciduous; cauline alternate, oblanceolate, entire, 3–15 mm long. Inflorescence terminal, wooly glomerules of sessile heads closely subtended by leaves. Heads disciform; involucre absent; receptacle conical, chaffy. Disk flowers tubular, minute; the outer female; inner functionally male. Pappus absent. Achenes oblong, compressed, <1 mm long (
Lesica et al. 2012. Manual of Montana Vascular Plants. BRIT Press. Fort Worth, TX).