Chamomilla recutita, (L.) Rauschert

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 : 167

1. C. recutita (L.) Rauschert , Folia Geobot. Phytotax. (Praha) 9: 255 (1974)

( Matricaria recutita L. , M. chamomilla L. pro parte).

Glabrous. Stems (2-)10-60 cm, erect or ascending, much-branched above. Leaves 4-7 cm; segments acute, wellseparated. Peduncles 3-10 cm; capitula (l-)8-120(-900), 10-25 mm in diameter; involucral bracts with a pale margin. Ligules 6-9 x 2-3 mm, soon deflexed, rarely absent; tubular florets 5-lobed, yellow; upper part of tube campanulate above a marked constriction. Achenes c. 1 mm, pale greyish-brown, with 4-5 ribs on the ventral face; pappus usually very small or absent, but sometimes, especially in achenes of the ligulate florets, a conspicuous, irregularly toothed auricle, as long as or longer than the achene. In = 18. Cultivated fields, waste places and saline steppes', sometimes cultivated as a medicinalplant. Most ofEurope, but probably native only in the south and east. All except Az Fa Hb Is Rs (N) Sb; casual in some of these.