Chamaemelum fuscatum

Unité de Malherbologie & Agronomie
Weed Science & Agronomy
INRA-Dijon

Bayer Code : antpr

Synonym(s) of Sc. name: Arthemis fusctat Brot.

Classification: Compositae, Dicotyledonous

Common name: Chamaemelum fuscatum

Synonym(s) of Common name:

Name per country: DE : Dunkelbraune Hundskamille ; ES : magarza ; FR : anthémis précoce ; IT : camomilla precoce ; PT : margaça-de-inverno ;

Biological type: Annual

Seed:

Seedling:

- Cotyledons elliptical to ovate at tip, rounded, sessile.

- Entire leaves elongated, rounded at tip then divided, slightly hairy.

Adult plant:

- Height: 5-30 cm. Glabrous.

- Stem erect or scending, branched.

- Middle leaves pinnate, with narrow division and each terminates in small point.

- Yellow flowers tubulous with white ligule surrounded by top of achenes in irregular cap. Bracts of involucre ovate completely under capitulum.

- Fruits : achenes very small, white brownish or slightly greenish (1 mm)

- Species rare in crops.

- Biological type: annual.

Mistake with: Chamaemelum mixtum , Anthemis altissima , Anthemis arvensis , Anacyclus clavatus , Anacyclus radiatus , Anacyclus valentinus

Ecological profile (click on flags): Present Rare Present