Cotula L.

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 : 177

83. Cotula L. 2

Annual or perennial herbs. Leaves entire or pinnatisect, alternate. Capitula terminal and axillary, pedunculate. Involucral bracts in 2 rows. Receptacle flat; scales absent. Florets pedicellate, the pedicels persistent after the achenes have fallen. Outer florets female; corolla small or absent. Inner florets hermaphrodite or functionally male; corolla tubular, compressed, 4-dentate. Achenes of female florets compressed, those ofhermaphrodite florets plano-convex; pappus absent.

Glabrous; leaves entire or with few teeth or lobes 1. coronopifolia Villous ; leaves usually 2-pinnatifid 2. australis