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Anthemis cotula angustata

(Chamomile)

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Common Names

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Common Names in English:

Chamomile, Dog Fennel, Dog-Fennel, Dogfennel, Mayweed, Mayweed Chamomile, Mayweed Dogfennel, Stinking Chamomile, Stinkweed

Common Names in French:

Camomille Des Chiens, Camomille Puante

Common Names in German:

Stinkende Hundskamille

Common Names in Portuguese:

Camomila-De-Cachorro, Macéla-Fétida

Common Names in Spanish:

Manzanilla Hedionda

Description

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Family Compositae

The largest family of flowering plants , the Compositae (Asteraceae), comprising about 1,100 genera and more than 20,000 species and characterized by many small flowers arranged in a head looking like a single flower and subtended by an involucre of bracts. A head may consist of both ray flowers and disk flowers, as in the sunflower, of disk flowers only, as in the burdock, or of ray flowers only, as in the dandelion.

Genus Anthemis

Annuals (biennials) [perennials , subshrubs ], mostly 5-90 cm (often aromatic ). Stems 1-5+, erect to decumbent , usually branched, strigillose or strigoso-sericeous to villous (hairs medifixed ), glabrescent [glabrous or sericeous to lanate ]. Leaves mostly cauline; alternate; petiolate or sessile; blades ± obovate to spatulate , 1-3-pinnately lobed , ultimate margins dentate to lobed, faces glabrous or strigillose to villous [glabrous or sericeous to lanate]. Heads radiate [discoid ], borne singly or in lax , corymbiform arrays (peduncles sometimes clavate and/or curved in fruit). Involucres obconic to hemispheric or broader, 5-13[-20] mm diam. Phyllaries persistent , mostly 21-35+ in 3-5 series, distinct , deltate to lanceolate, oblong , or elliptic , unequal, margins and apices (hyaline and colorless or brownish [black]) scarious . Receptacles hemispheric to narrowly conic, paleate (wholly or only distally) ; paleae ± flat, scarious to indurate (subulate or elliptic to obovate with mucronate to acuminate-spinose tips ). Ray florets [0 or 2-]5-20[-30+], pistillate and fertile or styliferous and sterile ; corollas usually white, rarely yellow or pink, laminae mostly oblong (tubes sometimes hairy ). Disc florets (60-) 100-300+, bisexual , fertile; corollas usually yellow, rarely pink, tubes ± cylindric (usually proximally dilated , ± spongy in fruit, sometimes hairy, not saccate ), throats funnelform , lobes 5, ± triangular (abaxially minutely crested ). Cypselae obovoid to obconic or turbinate (circular or 4-angled in cross section ), ribs usually 9-10 (0) and smooth or tuberculate , faces glabrous (pericarps with myxogenic cells ) ; pappi 0 or coroniform . x = 9.

Species 175: introduced ; Europe, sw Asia, n, e Africa; introduced in s Africa, Pacific Islands (New Zealand), Australia.[1]

Physical Description

Habit: Forb/herb

Biology

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Reproduction

Duration: Annual

Taxonomy

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Synonyms

Maruta cotula< /i> (L.) Dc.

Notes

Place of publication : Sp. pl. 2:894. 1753

Name verified on 20-May-1992 by ARS Systematic Botanists. Last updated: 01-Feb-1995

Similar Species

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Members of the genus Anthemis

ZipcodeZoo has pages for 26 species, subspecies, varieties, forms, and cultivars in this genus:

A. altissima (Tall Camomile) · A. arvensis (Corn Chamomile) · A. arvensis L. var. arvensis L. (Corn Chamomile) · A. arvensis var. arvensis (Corn Chamomile) · A. austriaca (Austrian Chamomile) · A. biebersteiniana (Alpine Chamomile) · A. carpatica 'Karpatenschnee' (Snow Carpet Marguerite) · A. carpatica 'Snow Carpet' (Mountain Dog-Daisy) · A. cotula (Chamomile) · A. cotula angustata (Chamomile) · A. cotula lithuanica (Stinking Chamomile) · A. cretica (Cretian Mat Daisy) · A. oppositifolia (Oppositeleaf Spotflower) · A. punctata cupaniana (Chamomile) · A. sancti-johannis (St. Johns Chamomile Anthemis Sancti-Johannis) · A. secundiramea (Prostrate Chamomile) · A. tinctoria (Dyers Chamomile) · A. tinctoria fussii (Dyer´s Chamomile) · A. tinctoria parnassica (Dyer´s Chamomile) · A. tinctoria tinctoria (Golden Chamomile) · A. tinctoria 'Charme' (Dyers Chamomile) · A. tinctoria 'E.c. Buxton' (Dyers Chamomile Anthemis Tinctoria E.c. Buxton) · A. tinctoria 'Kelwayi' (Dyers Chamomile) · A. tinctoria 'Moonlight' (Dyers Chamomile) · A. tinctoria 'Sauce Hollandaise' (Dyers Chamomile) · A. tinctoria 'Susanna Mitchell' (Dyers Chamomile)

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Further Reading

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Notes

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Footnotes

  1. Linda E. Watson "Anthemis". in Flora of North America Vol. 19, 20 and 21 Page 14, 487, 537, 547, 548. Oxford University Press. Online at EFloras.org. [back]
Last Revised: 7/15/2012