Red-tipped Cudweed Filago lutescens

Red-tipped Cudweed (Filago lutescens) is one of Britain's rarest plants, a small, woolly annual of open, disturbed sandy soils with a national distribution now almost entirely restricted to the Breckland of Suffolk and Norfolk. Suffolk holds the bulk of the UK population, making the county of outstanding importance for this species. It favours open, low-competition ground on sandy arable margins and disturbed grass-heath, and its persistence depends on continued soil disturbance and the prevention of rank vegetation. Like several other Breckland annuals, it can vary considerably in abundance between years depending on growing conditions and disturbance levels. Image: © Jakub Sůsa, iNaturalist.

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