Family: Asteraceae
Matricaria recutita
Citation:
L., Sp. Pl. 891 (1753).
Synonymy: Chamomilla recurira (L.)Rauschert, Folia Geobot. Phytotax. 9:255 (1974).
Common name: Wild chamomile.
Description:
Aromatic annual 10-60 cm high; stems erect, densely branched, striate, glabrous; leaves oblanceolate, 3-7 cm long, bipinnatisect with acute narrowly linear segments to 0.8 mm wide, dull-green, glabrous or subglabrous.
Capitula on naked peduncles 3-9 cm long, 1-2.5 cm diam., in loose cymes; involucre 2-3 mm long; bracts oblong, glabrous with pale scarious expanded apices; receptacle hollow; ray florets 9-15; ligules 6-9 mm long, at first patent, later reflexed; disk florets 5-merous, yellow.
Achenes c. 1 mm long, 4- or 5-ribbed on the ventral face, grey-brown; pappus of the ray achenes an oblong scale c. 1 mm long; pappus of disk achenes a minute scarious rim.
Published illustration:
Ross-Craig (1961) Drawings Brit. Pl. 16:t. 11.
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Distribution:
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Native to Europe.
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Conservation status:
naturalised
Flowering time: Nov. — Jan.
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SA Distribution Map based
on current data relating to
specimens held in the
State Herbarium of South Australia
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Biology:
No text
Taxonomic notes:
Known from 3 collections from Adelaide and the suburbs.
Author:
Not yet available
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