Accepted name: Matricaria chamomilla
Annual herb to 60 cm tall, sweetly scented, glabrous. Stems erect or ascending, much-branched. Leaves to 7 cm long, deeply twice divided, segments linear. Capitula in loose corymbs, to 2.5 cm across, on long bare stalks; spring and summer. Ray florets white. Disk florets yellow. Achenes about 1 mm long. Pappus a scale or crown. [M. chamomilla L.]
Europe, Asia
Source: (2002). Dahlia. In: . Horticultural Flora of South-eastern Australia. Volume 4. Flowering plants. Dicotyledons. Part 3. The identification of garden and cultivated plants. University of New South Wales Press.
