Anthemis
Sp. Pl. 2: 893. 1753.
Gen. Pl. ed. 5, 381. 1754.
| Taxon | Illustrator ⠉ | |
|---|---|---|
 | Hulteniella integrifolia Arctanthemum arcticum subsp. polare Anthemis arvensis | Yevonn Wilson-Ramsey Yevonn Wilson-Ramsey Yevonn Wilson-Ramsey |
Annuals (biennials) [perennials, subshrubs], mostly 5–90 cm (often aromatic). Stems 1–5+, erect to decumbent, usually branched, strigillose or strigoso-sericeous to villous (hairs medifixed), glabrescent [glabrous or sericeous to lanate]. Leaves mostly cauline; alternate; petiolate or sessile; blades ± obovate to spatulate, 1–3-pinnately lobed, ultimate margins dentate to lobed, faces glabrous or strigillose to villous [glabrous or sericeous to lanate]. Heads radiate [discoid], borne singly or in lax, corymbiform arrays (peduncles sometimes clavate and/or curved in fruit). Involucres obconic to hemispheric or broader, 5–13 [–20] mm diam. Phyllaries persistent, mostly 21–35+ in 3–5 series, distinct, deltate to lanceolate, oblong, or elliptic, unequal, margins and apices (hyaline and colorless or brownish [black]) scarious. Receptacles hemispheric to narrowly conic, paleate (wholly or only distally); paleae ± flat, scarious to indurate (subulate or elliptic to obovate with mucronate to acuminate-spinose tips). Ray-florets [0 or 2–] 5–20 [–30+], pistillate and fertile or styliferous and sterile; corollas usually white, rarely yellow or pink, laminae mostly oblong (tubes sometimes hairy). Disc-florets (60–) 100–300+, bisexual, fertile; corollas usually yellow, rarely pink, tubes ± cylindric (usually proximally dilated, ± spongy in fruit, sometimes hairy, not saccate), throats funnelform, lobes 5, ± triangular (abaxially minutely crested). Cypselae obovoid to obconic or turbinate (circular or 4-angled in cross-section), ribs usually 9–10 (0) and smooth or tuberculate, faces glabrous (pericarps with myxogenic cells); pappi 0 or coroniform. x = 9.
Distribution
Introduced; Europe, sw Asia, n, e Africa, in s Africa, Pacific Islands (New Zealand), Australia
Discussion
Species 175 (2 in the flora).
Anthemis secundiramea Bivona-Bernardi, a European species, was collected once in Virginia; it differs from A. arvensis in having peduncles to 8 cm and ribs on cypselae ± tuberculate.
Selected References
Lower Taxa
Key
| 1 | Stems branched mostly proximally; receptacles paleate throughout, paleae lanceolate to oblanceolate, weakly navicular (± carinate, tips acuminate-spinose); cypselae: ribs smooth or weakly tuberculate | Anthemis arvensis |
| 1 | Stems branched mostly distally or ± throughout; receptacles paleate distally, paleae subulate to acerose; cypselae: ribs ± tuberculate | Anthemis cotula |
"broader" is not a number.