Anthemis austriaca, Jacq.

Tutin, T. G., Heywood, V. H., Burges, N. A., Moore, D. M., Valentine, D. H., Walters, S. M. & Webb, D. A., 1976, Flora Europaea. Volume 4. Plantaginaceae to Compositae (and Rubiaceae), Cambridge University Press : 158

57. A. austriaca Jacq. , FI. Austr. 5: 22 (1778)

( A. cotiformis Velen. ).

Erect, usually much-branched annual or biennial (7-5-)10-60 cm. Leaves sparsely to densely hairy, obovate to oblong, regularly pinnatipartite; segments linear, pectinate; lobes oblong-linear to lanceolate, acute, mucronate-cuspidate. Capitula (10-)20-40 mm in diameter; peduncles 6-12 cm, not davate in fruit. Involucre subhemispherical; bracts subhirsute, the outer lanceolate or ovate-lanceolate, the inner oblong to ellipticoblong, acute, with wide, hyaline, sometimes brownish-scarious, ciliate margin and apex. Ligules (9-) 10-15 x 3-4 mm, sometimes more or less deeply 2- to 3-fid. Disc 9-15 mm in diameter. Receptacle subhemispherical; scales oblong, attenuate into a short acumen, subequalling the florets. Achenes 1-75-2-5 mm, with acute lateral angles, obsoletely (2-)3-striate at each side, with acute rim or very short corona. In = 18. E.C. & S.E. Europe; casual further north and west. Al Au Bu Cz?Gr Hu It Ju Rm Rs (C, W, K) Tu.