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Scientific Name: | Chamaemelum nobile |
Common Name: | Roman chamomile |
Family Name: | Asteraceae |
Origin: | Europe |
Hardiness Zone: | Zone 6: (-23 to -18 °C) |
Plant Type: | Ground cover, Herbaceous perennial |
Mature Size: | 0.2 - 0.4m x 0.3 - 0.6m (height x width) |
Habit: | Spreading, Upright |
Form: | Creeping / Mat-like |
Texture: | Fine |
Landscape Uses: | Bedding plant, Container planting, Dried flower or fruit, Fragrance, Green roof technology, Herb, Lawn - sports field, Medicinal plant, Perennial border, Summer interest |
Exposure: | Full sun |
Soil or Media: | Rocky or gravelly or dry, Well-drained |
Leaves: | Dissected, Compound, Alternate, Sessile, Soft flexible, Distinctive smell, Bipinnate, Filiform, Incised |
Flowers: | Head (capitulum), White, Yellow, Jul-Aug-Sep |
Fruit: | Cypsela (achene + calyx), Brown, Sep-Oct |
Key ID Features: | |
Leaves alternate, sessile, oblong in outline, most 1-3(-5)cm long x 1-3cm wide, bipinnately compound, leaflet 1-2cm long with pointed pinnae <7mm long x <1mm wide; flower heads daisy-like, sparse, usually with 13-21 white ray florets, most 7-10mm long, yellow disk florets, peduncles 2-4cm long; achenes 1-1.5mm long. |