Broad-leaved cudweed  (Filago pyramidata)

Found across Europe and into central Asia and North Africa. In the UK, it is confined almost entirely to the southeast of England, with records from Sussex, Surrey, Kent, Essex, Cambridgeshire and sites in Oxfordshire. There may be only nine sites in Britain.

The broad-leaved cudweed prefers arable land which is disturbed regularly, mainly on chalky or calcareous soils. It is a plant of marginal farmland which cannot support more vigorous species. There are also large populations in abandoned chalk quarries.