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|accepted_name=Anthemis
|accepted_authority=Linnaeus
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Sp. Pl.
|place=2: 893. 1753
|year=1753
}}, {{Treatment/Publication
|title=Gen. Pl. ed.
|place=5, 381. 1754
|year=1754
}}
|common_names=Chamomile
|basionyms=
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Asteraceae;Asteraceae tribe Anthemideae;Anthemis
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Asteraceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>tribe</small>[[Asteraceae tribe Anthemideae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Anthemis]]</div></div>
|etymology=Greek anthemon, flower
|volume=Volume 19
|mention_page=page 14, 487, 547, 548
|treatment_page=page 537
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Annuals </b>(biennials) [perennials, subshrubs], mostly 5–90 cm (often aromatic). <b>Stems</b> 1–5+, erect to decumbent, usually branched, strigillose or strigoso-sericeous to villous (hairs medifixed), glabrescent [glabrous or sericeous to lanate]. <b>Leaves</b> 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]. <b>Heads</b> radiate [discoid], borne singly or in lax, corymbiform arrays (peduncles sometimes clavate and/or curved in fruit). <b>Involucres</b> obconic to hemispheric or broader, 5–13[–20] mm diam. <b>Phyllaries</b> 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. <b>Receptacles</b> 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). <b>Ray</b> 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). <b>Disc</b> 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). <b>Cypselae</b> 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. <b>x</b> = 9.</span><!--

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|distribution=Europe;sw Asia;n;e Africa;introduced in s Africa;Pacific Islands (New Zealand);Australia.
|introduced=true
|discussion=<p>Species 175 (2 in the flora).</p><!--
--><p><i>Anthemis</i> secundiramea Bivona-Bernardi, a European species, was collected once in Virginia; it differs from <i>A. arvensis</i> in having peduncles to 8 cm and ribs on cypselae ± tuberculate.</p>
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|references={{Treatment/Reference
|id=oberprieler2001a
|text=Oberprieler, C. 2001. Phylogenetic relationships in Anthemis L. (Compositae, Anthemideae) based on nrDNA ITS sequence variation. Taxon 50: 745–762.
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==Key==
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|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|Anthemis arvensis]]
|-id=key-0-1
|1
|Stems branched mostly distally or ± throughout; receptacles paleate distally, paleae subulate to acerose; cypselae: ribs ± tuberculate
|[[Anthemis cotula|Anthemis cotula]]
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name=Anthemis
|author=Linda E. Watson
|authority=Linnaeus
|rank=genus
|parent rank=tribe
|synonyms=
|basionyms=
|family=Asteraceae
|distribution=Europe;sw Asia;n;e Africa;introduced in s Africa;Pacific Islands (New Zealand);Australia.
|introduced=true
|reference=oberprieler2001a
|publication title=Sp. Pl.;Gen. Pl. ed.
|publication year=1753;1754
|special status=
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|tribe=Asteraceae tribe Anthemideae
|genus=Anthemis
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