| Anthemis cetula L. | |||
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| Family | Compositae — APG family: Asteraceae | ||
| Common name | mayweed | ||
| Description | Ill-scented; glabrous or nearly so; stem mostly branched; leaves 1-3 times pin- nate with narrowly linear, acute segments; heads solitary, short-stalked; involucral bracts oblong, blunt, with broad, scarious, white margin; ray flowers white, in age reflexed, disk flowers yellow; receptacle conical, with linear-subulate scales near apex; achenes tuberculate. | ||
| Ecology | Roadsides, waste places; an introduced weed. Described from Europe, especially Ukrainia. |
This is a digital representation of Eric Hultén’s ‘Flora of Alaska and Neighboring Territories: A Manual of the Vascular Plants’, which was published by Stanford University Press in 1968. The book was digitized by C. Webb (at UAMN) as part of the Flora of Alaska project, with funding by the US NSF (Grant 1759964 to Ickert-Bond & Webb), and with permission of Stanford University Press. Data and images © 1968 Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Jr. Univ. Usage licence: Creative Commons BY-NC-SA 4.0. NB: You may find OCR errors; please refer to the hard-copy if in doubt.