Japanese name: ホソバノチチコグサモドキ（細葉父子草擬） Scientific name:Gamochaeta calviceps
[Overview]
A winter annual or annual 10–30 cm tall, found by roadsides and in vacant lots.
Dense white cottony hairs cover the stem and the underside of the leaves, and the upper surface of the leaves is also hairy.
The stem branches from the base and stands erect, sometimes branching in the upper part.
There are basal leaves and stem leaves; the basal leaves have withered by the flowering season.
The stem leaves are 7–10 simple alternate leaves; the lower ones are spatulate, and the upper ones are linear-lanceolate, 1.2–3.5 cm long and 0.2–0.6 cm wide, with pointed tips.
Short branches arise from the leaf axils, bearing flower heads clustered in spikes.
The involucral bracts have white cottony hairs on the back.
The fruit is an achene.
[History]
First collected in Osaka in 1910 by Kinashi Nobutaro, it is thought to have become naturalized in the early Taisho period, and it is now naturalized in many places.
