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Weed Science & Agronomy
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Bayer Code : antru

Scientific name: Anthemis ruthenica M. Bieberstein


Synonym(s) of Sc. name: Anthemis neilreichii Ortmann

Classification: Compositae, Dicotyledonous

Common name: Anthemis ruthenica

Synonym(s) of Common name:

Name per country: DE : Russische Hundskamille ; ES : antemis rutenica ; FR : anthemis de Russie ; IT : Camomilla ;

Biological type: Annual


Seedling snapshot Seedling:

- Cotyledons round to oval, rounded ends, sessile.

- Foliage leaves divided with narrow linear segments; first pinnate, then dipinnate; slightly hairy.

- Seedling differs little from Anthemis austriaca .


Adult plant snapshotAdult plant snapshot Adult plant:

- Height: 10-40 cm.

- Stem erect or prostrate, downy haired; profusely branched from the base with erect spreading branches.

- Foliage leaves divided, oblong ovate, simply pinnatifid or dipinnatifid, segments 1mm broad; if ground, plant gives a strong, aromatic smell of lemon; woolly pubescent

- Flower : heads 25-35 mm broad, long-stalked; yellow disk florets, white ray flowers ; scales dentate and with cusp at the apex.

- Seed 1.5-2 mm long, outer ones deeply angular grooved.

- Biological type: annual.

- Spread: In the eastern parts of the country often very abundant in all cultivated fields.

Mistake with: Anthemis austriaca


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