Anthemis altissima

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Interesting Facts

Common Names

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Description

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

Habitat

Typically found at an altitude of 0 to 1,390 meters (0 to 4,560 feet).[2]

Biology

Reproduction

Duration: Annual

Taxonomy

Synonyms

Cota altissima (L.) J. Gay

Notes

Name Status: Accepted Name . Latest taxonomic scrutiny: 15-Mar-2000

Place of publication : Sp. pl. 2:893. 1753

Name verified on 29-Jan-1997 by ARS Systematic Botanists.

Similar Species

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

• Alien flora of Britain. London, West, Newman, 1905. url p. 101.
• Britton, N. L. (ed.). North American flora. [New York]New York Botanical Garden. url p. 227.
• Bulletin of miscellaneous information /Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. 1909 London: H.M. Stationery Office, 1900-1941. url p. 403.
• Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History). London: The Museum, 1951-1992. url p. 115, p. 137.
• Bulletin of the Natural History Museum. London: The Natural History Museum, c1993-2002. url p. 132, p. 165.
• Bulletin of the New York Botanical Garden. 1 1899 Lancaster, Pa.: Published for the Garden by the New Era Printing Co., url p. 223, p. 361.
• Catalogue of the Hanbury Herbarium, in the Museum of the Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain / compiled by E.M. Holmes. London: Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain, 1892. url p. 71.
• Compositae newsletter. Columbus, Ohio: Dept. of Botany, Ohio State University, 1975- url p. 11, p. 17, p. 28.
• Studies on the vegetation of the Transcaspian lowlands. Copenhagen, Gyldendalske Boghandel1912. url .
• The Annals of Scottish natural history. Edinburgh: David Douglas, 1892-1911. url p. 100, p. 239, p. 46.
• The anthropology of Iraq. The Upper Euphrates / by Henry Field, Curator of Physical Anthropology. Chicago:Field Museum, 1940 url p. 168, p. 194.
• The naturalist. London: Simpkin, Marshall, 1865- url p. 306.
• Transactions of the Edinburgh Field Naturalists' and Microscopical Society. [Edinburgh]: The Club, 1891- url p. 138.
• Transactions of the Linnean Society of London, 2nd series: Botany 5 1901 London. url p. 463.
• Oberprieler, C. 2001. Phylogenetic relationships in Anthemis L. (Compositae, Anthemideae) based on nrDNA ITS sequence variation. Taxon 50: 745-762.

Notes

Contributors

• Brands, S.J. (comp.) 1989-present. The Taxonomicon. Universal Taxonomic Services, Zwaag, The Netherlands. Accessed January 10, 2012.

Data Sources

Accessed through GBIF Data Portal November 16, 2007:

• Bundesamt für Naturschutz / Zentralstelle für Phytodiversität Deutschland, Bundesamt fuer Naturschutz / Zentralstelle fuer Phytodiversitaet Deutschland
• Conservatoire botanique national du Bassin parisien, Conservatoire botanique national du Bassin parisien
• GBIF-Spain, Dpto de Botánica, Ecología y Fisiología Vegetal
• .Facultad de Ciencias.Universidad de Córdoba
• GBIF-Spain, Real Jardin Botanico
• , Vascular Plant Herbarium
• GBIF-Spain, Universidad de Oviedo. Departamento de Biología de Organismos y Sistemas: FCO
• Herbarium of the University of Aarhus, The AAU Herbarium Database
• The Swedish Museum of Natural History
• , Herbarium of Oskarshamn
• The Swedish Museum of Natural History
• , Lund Botanical Museum
• Tiroler Landesmuseum Ferdinandeum, Tiroler Landesmuseum Ferdinandeum
• UK National Biodiversity Network, Botanical Society of the British Isles - Vascular Plants Database

Identifiers

• Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 2664162
• Catalogue of Life Accepted Name Code: ITS-184892
• Global Biodiversity Information Facility Taxonkey: 13727523
• Globally Unique Identifier: urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:177125-1
• GRIN Nomen Number: 407442
• Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS) Taxonomic Serial Number (TSN): 184892
• Natural Heritage Network Species Identifier: PDAST0J010
• U.S.D.A. Plant Symbol: COAL11
• Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 19657

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]
2. Mean = -18.320 meters (-60.105 feet), Standard Deviation = 849.130 based on 25 observations. Altitude information for each observation from British Oceanographic Data Centre. [back]

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