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Pyrethrum parthenium

(Feverfew)

Interesting Facts

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Common Names

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Common Names in English:

Feverfew

Common Names in Finnish:

Reunuspaeivaenkakkara

Common Names in Italian:

Amarella, Matricale

Common Names in Romanian:

Granat, Iarbă Amară, Moşnegei, Spilcuţe

Common Names in Russian:

Piretrum Devičij, пиретрум девичий

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.

Taxonomy

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Synonyms

Chrysanthemum Parthenium • Chrysanthemum parthenium (L.) Bernh. • Chrysanthemum parthenium (L.) Pers. • Matricaria parthenium L.

Notes

Name Status: Accepted Name .

Comment: Data Providers: African Flowering Plants Database , Flora Malesiana, IPNI, MesoAmericana, Flora of China Checklist , Tropicos, Euro+Med. GCC LSID: urn :lsid:compositae.org:names:41EF8E33-0BA7-4E5D-AB5E-794D0C9FF61A

Last scrutiny: 01-Nov-09

Similar Species

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Members of the genus Pyrethrum

ZipcodeZoo has pages for 7 species, subspecies, varieties, forms, and cultivars in this genus:

P. coccineum (Pyrethum Daisy) · P. frutescens (Marguerite Daisy) · P. indicum (Mother's Daisy) · P. leucanthemum (Common White Daisy) · P. parthenium (Feverfew) · P. segetum (Corn Marigold) · P. vulgare (Golden Buttons)

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Data Sources

Accessed through GBIF Data Portal February 16, 2008:

Identifiers

Last Revised: 2012-07-23