font settings and languages

Font Size: Large | Normal | Small
Font Face: Verdana | Geneva | Georgia
Languages:

Anthemis cotula

(Chamomile)

Overview

[ Back to top ]

Interesting Facts

[ Back to top ]

Common Names

[ Back to top ]

Click on the language to view common names.

Common Names in Chinese:

chou Chun Huang Ju, Chou Gan Ju

Common Names in Danish:

Stinkende Gåseurt

Common Names in Dutch:

Stinkende Kamille

Common Names in English:

Chamomile, Dog Fennel, Dog´s Fennel, Dog-Fennel, Dogfennel, Mayweed, Mayweed Dogfennel, Mayweed Chamomile, Mayweed Dogfennel, Stinking Chamomile, Stinking Chamomile Anthemis Cotula, Stinking Mayweed, Stinkweed

Common Names in Finnish:

Haisusauramo

Common Names in French:

Anthémis Puant, Anthémis Puante, Camomille Bâtarde, Camomille Des Chiens, Camomille Puante, Oeil De Vache

Common Names in German:

Hundskamille, Stinkende Hundskamille

Common Names in Italian:

Camomilla Fetida, Camomilla Mezzana

Common Names in Norwegian:

Tappgåseblom

Common Names in Portuguese:

Camomila-De-Cachorro, Macéla-Fétida, Macela-Fétida

Common Names in Romanian:

Romaniţă Puturoasă

Common Names in Russian:

Pupavka Sobač'ja, Pupavka Sobach´ia, пупавка собачья

Common Names in Spanish:

Manzanilla, Manzanilla Hedionda

Common Names in Swedish:

Kamomillkulla

Description

[ Back to top ]

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

Species Anthemis cotula

Annuals , (5-) 15-35(-90) cm, usually ill-scented. Stems green (sometimes red-tinged), usually erect , branched mostly distally or ± throughout, glabrous , glabrate , puberulent , or sparsely strigillose to strigoso-sericeous (glabrescent , hairs mostly medifixed ) and gland-dotted. Leaf blades 25-55 × 15-30 mm, 1-2-pinnately lobed . Peduncles mostly (2-) 4-6(-15) cm. Involucres 5-9 mm diam., ± villosulous to arachnose. Receptacles paleate mostly distally; paleae subulate to acerose 2-3+ mm (often gland-dotted). Ray florets 10-15, styliferous and sterile ; corollas white, laminae 5-15+ mm. Disc corollas 2-2.5 mm (sparsely gland-dotted). Cypselae 1.3-2 mm, ribs ± tuberculate (furrows often gland-dotted) ; pappi 0. 2n = 18. Flowering (Apr-) May-Aug(-Oct). [source]

 

Habit: Forb/herb

Flowers: Bloom Period: April, May, June, July, August, September. • Flower Color: near white, white

Size/Age/Growth

Size: 18-24" tall.

Habitat

Disturbed sites, clearings, fields , roadsides; 10-600(-1500+) m (Ref. 51311).

Typically found at an altitude of 0 to 4,212 meters (0 to 13,819 feet).[2]

Biology

[ Back to top ]

Reproduction

Duration: Annual

Growth

Culture: Space 12-15" apart.

Soil: Minimum pH: 6.6 • Maximum pH: 8.5

Sunlight: Sun Exposure: Full Sun .

Temperature: Cold Hardiness: Not Applicable (map)

Taxonomy

[ Back to top ]

Synonyms

Anthemis foetida Lamarck • Chamaemelum cotula (L.) All. • Chamaemelum cotula (Linnaeus) Allioni • Maruta cotula (Linnaeus) De Candolle • Maruta cotula< /i> (L.) Dc.

Notes

Name Status: Accepted Name .

Comment: Data Providers: CONABIO, Caribbean Checklist , African Flowering Plants Database , SANBI, New Zealand Plant Name Database, Flora of Japan, Govaerts World Compositae Checklist A-G, IPNI, Flora of China Checklist, Tropicos, Euro+Med, Flora of Tasmania Online. GCC LSID: urn :lsid:compositae.org:names:C2094573-91D0-4FCD-A6BE-E1FA3DBCF969

Last scrutiny: 13-Nov-09

Similar Species

[ Back to top ]

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)

More Info

[ Back to top ]

Further Reading

[ Back to top ]

Notes

[ Back to top ]

Contributors

Data Sources

Accessed through GBIF Data Portal November 12, 2007:

Identifiers

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 = 135.080 meters (443.176 feet), Standard Deviation = 243.270 based on 4,594 observations. Altitude information for each observation from British Oceanographic Data Centre. [back]
Last Revised: 7/15/2012