Matricaria trichophylla, (Boiss.) Boiss.

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 : 166

1. M. trichophylla (Boiss.) Boiss. , Diagn. Pl. Or. Nov. 1(6): 88 (1846)

( Tripleurospermum tenuifolium (Kit.) Freyn ).

Biennial, rarely perennial. Stems 50-150 cm, erect, more or less corymbosely branched above; stems and leaves usually with numerous capitate glands, sometimes with scattered hairs. Leafsegments long, narrow, acutely apiculate. Capitula (4-)10-60, 3-5 cm in diameter; ligules 1-1 -7 cm; involucral bracts with a wide, colourless to pale brown scarious margin. Achenes with abaxial face pale or medium brown, smooth or weakly rugose; ribs stramineous, thick, the lateral usually distinctly longer than the median, strongly incurved above; pappus usually absent; resin-gland solitary, transversely elongated. Hedges, roadsides and cultivatedfields. S.E. & E.C. Europe. Al Au Bu Gr Hu Ju Rm Tu.