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Bayer Code : antmi

Scientific name: Chamaemelum mixtum (L.) Alloni


Synonym(s) of Sc. name: Arthemis mixata L., Ormenis mixta (L.) Dumortier

Classification: Compositae, Dicotyledonous

Common name: Chamaemelum mixtum

Synonym(s) of Common name:

Name per country: DE : Sparrige Hundskamille ; ES : manzanilla estrellada ; FR : anthémis panaché ; IT : camomilla bicolore ; PT : margaça ;

Biological type: Annual


Seed snapshot Seed:

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Seedling:

- Cotyledons elliptical to ovate with rounded tip, sessile.

- Entire leaves, elongated, rounded tip, then leaf divided, hairy.


Adult plant snapshot Adult plant snapshot Adult plant:

- Height 10-40 cm. Pubescent odoriferous.

- Stem branched, erect or ascending.

- Leaves in rosette, alternated, green bright. Cauline leaves with very large foliar axil, pinnatipartite with entire or serrate segment mucron and hairs decreasing in height throughout base. Hair intensity increases with development.

- Flower yellow tubulous with white ligule in capitulum. Flowers with pointed hairy plicate palea. Involucre of bracts scarious margin.

- Fruits : achenes very small (1mm) yellowish.

- Biological type: annual.

Mistake with: Chamaemelum fuscatum , Anthemis altissima , Anthemis arvensis , Anacyclus clavatus , Anacyclus radiatus , Anacyclus valentinus


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