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Scientific Name: | Matricaria discoidea |
Common Name: | pineapple weed |
Family Name: | Asteraceae |
Origin: | North America |
Hardiness Zone: | Zone 6: (-23 to -18 °C) |
Plant Type: | Annual (true), Weed (horticultural) |
Mature Size: | 0.1 - 0.2m x 0.1 - 0.3m (height x width) |
Habit: | Spreading, Upright |
Form: | Irregular |
Texture: | Fine |
Landscape Uses: | Attract beneficial insects, Attract butterflies, Herb |
Exposure: | Full sun |
Soil or Media: | Well-drained |
Leaves: | Dissected, Compound, Alternate, Basal, Soft flexible, Pinnate venation, Pubescent, Distinctive smell, Tripinnate, Oblong, Incised |
Flowers: | Head (capitulum), Yellow, Green-yellow, Jun-Jul-Aug-Sep |
Fruit: | Achene, Brown, Sep-Oct |
Key ID Features: | |
Annual weed 4-40cm tall; stem leaves alternate, most oblong, 1-7cm long x 0.2-2cm wide; flower heads cone-shaped, composed of many densely packed disk florets with yellowish-green corollas, ray florets absent, have a chamomile-pineapple aroma when crushed. |