Stinking chamomile or mayweed
Anthemis cotula

About
Anthemis cotula, also known as stinking chamomile or mayweed, is a flowering annual plant with a noticeable and strong odor. The odor is often considered unpleasant, and it is from this that it gains the common epithet "stinking". In pre-colonial times, its distribution was limited to Europe and Africa; though it was established in most of Europe, it was not present in Finland, Ireland, or the northernmost reaches of Scotland, in spite of the fact that these countries feature climatic regions favorable to this plant and are in proximity to countries where the species is native, such as Russia, Estonia, Lithuania and England. It has successfully migrated to the American continents where it can be found growing in meadows, alongside roads, and in fields.
- Family
- Asteraceae
Ecology
How it lives
- Propagated by
- Seed
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- Name
- Anthemis cotula
- Slug
- anthemis-cotula
- Kingdom
- Plantae
- Family
- Asteraceae
- Genus
- Anthemis
- Species
- cotula
- Wikidata QID
- Q571357
- Propagule type
- seed
- Container suitable
- No
- Indoor suitable
- No
- OSSI pledged
- No
- Hazard level
- 1
- Data completeness
- 43
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