Filago germanica vs filago

Filago germanica and filago both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
Filago germanica	Yes	No	No	No
filago	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, filago is a hypernym of Filago germanica; that is, filago is a word with a broader meaning than Filago germanica:

Filago germanica: (literally an undutiful herb) a variety of cotton rose
filago: any plant of the genus Filago having capitate clusters of small woolly flower heads

Other hypernyms of Filago germanica include cotton rose, cudweed.

Filago germanica (noun)	filago (noun)
(literally an undutiful herb) a variety of cotton rose	any plant of the genus Filago having capitate clusters of small woolly flower heads