Chamaemelum
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Chamaemelum is a small genus of plants in the daisy family
known generally as dogfennels. Perhaps the best-known dogfennel is Roman Chamomile, Chamaemelum nobile, syn. Anthemis nobilis. These are annual or perennial herbs, rarely exceeding half a meter in height and usually bearing solitary white daisylike flowers with yellow centers. They are native to Europe but most species can be found scattered in other continents where they have been introduced
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Asteraceae
The Asteraceae or Compositae , is an exceedingly large and widespread family of vascular plants. The group has more than 22,750 currently accepted species, spread across 1620 genera and 12 subfamilies...
known generally as dogfennels. Perhaps the best-known dogfennel is Roman Chamomile, Chamaemelum nobile, syn. Anthemis nobilis. These are annual or perennial herbs, rarely exceeding half a meter in height and usually bearing solitary white daisylike flowers with yellow centers. They are native to Europe but most species can be found scattered in other continents where they have been introduced
Introduced species
An introduced species — or neozoon, alien, exotic, non-indigenous, or non-native species, or simply an introduction, is a species living outside its indigenous or native distributional range, and has arrived in an ecosystem or plant community by human activity, either deliberate or accidental...
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Species
- Chamaemelum fuscatum - dusky dogfennel
- Chamaemelum mixtum - weedy dogfennel
- Chamaemelum nobile - Roman chamomile