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Pseudognaphalium affine
Also called Jersey Cudweed
Cotton Weed is a small, woolly-leaved annual or biennial herb of the daisy family, widely found across East and Southeast Asia and parts of the Caucasus. It is a hardy, easy wild plant that is mainly grown or gathered for its use in food and traditional medicine.
Pseudognaphalium affine is a species of flowering plant belonging to the genus Pseudognaphalium. The species is widely distributed in East Asia, Southeast Asia, South Asia, Transcaucasus and Anatolia.
The plant is biennial, with stems 15–40 cm long, the surface of the plant is covered with fine woolly hair and the leaves are small and rounded. The flowers appear as small florets with petal around 2 mm long.
This plant has been used traditionally in Traditional Chinese medicine and also features in the cuisine of East Asian Countries namely in sweet rice confections. They include the Japanese Kusa mochi and the Fujianese/Taiwanese chhú-khak-ké.
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Pseudognaphalium affine by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts and the care summary drawn from them are shared under the same licence.
The care summary was written by AI (Claude, Anthropic) from the sources on this page, with general growing knowledge where they are silent. Check before relying on it.
Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.
