Gnaphalium sylvaticum L.
Conservation status: C
First record: Ray,1661 Last record: G Crompton & R Payne, 1988 25
Gnaphalium Anglicum Ger.... [Gamlingay]. Ray litt. 1661,219.
Gnaphalium Anglicum Ger. Great English Cudweed. In the pastures about Gamlingay. Ray,1663,5;... and in the Park. Ray,1685,7; Martyn,1727,27.
Gamlingay JM.ann.Index loc.
Filago altera Dod. At Gamlingay, Mus. Martyn, n.d., CGE.
[Great English Cudweed and in the Park] Th.M.ann.Meth.27. Filago altera Gamlingay Th.M.ann.Meth.–Index Loc.7–8.
G. anglicum. Gamlingay. Martyn,1763,Herbat.XI.
Gamlingay. In the Park. Martyn,1763,Herbat.XI.
Gnaphalium rectum G. sylvaticum Upright Cudweed. Sandy Woods. Gamlingay Park. Relhan,1785.
Upright Wood Cudweed. Sandy Heaths. Gamlingay Park. Relhan,1802;1820.
In White Wood... Gnaphalium rectum sparingly Jenyns,JNH,24.8.1824.
G. rectum White wood. Henslow ann. 2:338.
Gamlingay, L.J., 24.8.1824, BATHG.
Gamlingay, JS Henslow, 24.8.1824, det. PD Sell 1958, CGE.
Gamlingay, JS Henslow, 2,3,4 8.1828, det. PD Sell 1958, CGE.
Gamlingay, JS Henslow, 16.8.1831, CGE.
Gamlingay. Bab.1860,127 & Bab.MS.Fl.404.
Gamlingay, CE Moss, 9.1908, CGE.
Gamlingay Heath Wood, AS Shrubbs, 9.1919, CGE.
c.20 flowering plants, sandy bank at base of hedge on new verge, SE side of road (road from Gamlingay to Everton), 231.519, AC Leslie, 29.9.1975; estimate more than 50 flowering/fruiting spikes and a number of ? seedling non–flowering ones over c.30 yards, seed and ?seedlings (2) collected for CUBG, 275/75, SM Walters, JSL Gilmour & AO Chater, 1.11.1975.
31 flowering plants, each with several stems, assoc. spp list includes Trifolium micranthum (list given to CNT exc.), AC Leslie, 5.11.1975.
Bank now getting overgrown, [231.519] DE Coombe, 23.5.1980;
Not found at 232.519, G Crompton & R Payne, 22.8.1988 and 9.9.1988.
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Gamlingay, c.15 plants, fallow sandy field, 227.527, plants at end of field furthest from road where the vegetation is sparser, AC Leslie, 5.2.1977.
Gamlingay, 75 plants counted, fallow field, 229.527/526?, (Senecio jacobaea ab.) with scattered hawthorns in SE corner, amongst broom, with Stella gra, Vicia tet, Crepis cap & Vicia cracca etc. in clumps ranging from small (2–7 plants) to large, (22–38 plants), G Crompton & R Payne, 22.8.1988, CGE.
