Anthemis ammanthus, W. Greuter

Tutin, T. G., Heywood, V. H., Burges, N. A., Moore, D. M., Valentine, D. H., Walters, S. M. & Webb, D. A., 1976, Flora Europaea. Volume 4. Plantaginaceae to Compositae (and Rubiaceae), Cambridge University Press : 158

61. A. ammanthus W. Greuter , op. cit. 145 (1968)

( Ammanthus maritimus Boiss. & Heldr. ).

Diffuse, appressed-hairy to glabrescent annual. Stems l-5-24(-36) cm, usually numerous, radiating from the axils of basal leaves, decumbent, more or less branched, rather slender, rigid. Leaves fleshy, the basal and lower cauline up to 2-5 x 0-8 cm, long-petiolate, pinnatipartite, the others shortly petiolate to sessile, obovate- or ovate- to linear-spathulate, and 3- to 7-lobed to entire, the lobes usually obtuse, with or without a very short mucro. Capitula 4-7(-12) mm in diameter; peduncles not davate. Involucre obconical to hemispherical; bracts oblong, with sometimes pink, scarious margin and apex. Receptacle low , convex. Ligules absent. Florets at first yellow, finally purplish, with the lower half of tube cylindrical, swollen and spongy. Achenes c. 1-75 mm, obconical-turbinate, distinctly 10-ribbed; corona 0-3-0-5 mm, hyaline, more or less eroselacerate. Maritime sands and grassy places near the sea. • S. Aegean region. Cr Gr.