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Taxon: Matricaria chamomilla L.

Genus: Matricaria
Family: Asteraceae (alt. Compositae).
Nomen number: 23475
Place of publication: Sp. pl. 2:891. 1753
Typification: View record from Linnaean Plant Name Typification Project of the Natural History Museum of London.
Comment: sensu typo, non Matricaria chamomilla sensu L. 1753, = Tripleurospermum maritimum subsp. inodorum (L.) Appleq.), altered by Linnaeus in 1755 and adopted in his new sense, as it is now typified, by later authors
Name verified on: 09-May-2008 by ARS Systematic Botanists. Last updated: 09-May-2008
No species priority site assigned.
Accessions: 3 in National Plant Germplasm System.
  • all available ) NPGS accessions ) or .
  • all available ) NPGS accessions by country.


Common names:

  • blue chamomile   (Source: Flower Oils [as M. recutita]) – English
  • chamomile   (Source: Herbs Commerce ed2 [as M. recutita]) – English
  • common chamomile   (Source: Dict Rehm [as M. recutita]) – English
  • German chamomile   (Source: World Econ Pl ) – English
  • Hungarian chamomile   (Source: Ency CNatIn [as M. recutita]) – English
  • matricaria   (Source: Pl Res SEAs 16:86. [as M. recutita]) – English
  • scented chamomile   (Source: Candollea 31:227. [as M. recutita]) – English
  • scented mayweed   (Source: F BritStace [as M. recutita]) – English
  • sweet false chamomile   (Source: Ency CNatIn [as M. recutita]) – English
  • true chamomile   (Source: Pl Res SEAs 16:86. [as M. recutita]) – English
  • wild chamomile   (Source: Folia GePh 9:259. [as M. recutita]) – English
  • camomille vraie   (Source: Dict Rehm [as M. recutita]) – French
  • echte Kamille   (Source: Dict Rehm [as M. recutita]) – German
  • Kamille   (Source: L. Conrad, p.c. [as M. recutita]) – German
  • camomila   (Source: Dict Rehm [as M. recutita]) – Portuguese
  • camomila   (Source: Dict Rehm [as M. recutita]) – Spanish
  • manzanilla   (Source: Dict Rehm [as M. recutita]) – Spanish
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Distributional range:

      Native:
  • AFRICA
    Northern Africa: Algeria; Morocco
  • ASIA-TEMPERATE
    Western Asia: Afghanistan; Cyprus; Iran; Iraq [n.]; Israel; Lebanon; Syria; Turkey
    Caucasus: Azerbaijan; Georgia; Russian Federation - Ciscaucasia, Dagestan
    Siberia: Russian Federation - Eastern Siberia, Western Siberia
    Middle Asia: Kazakhstan; Kyrgyzstan
  • EUROPE
    Northern Europe: Denmark; Finland; Norway; Sweden; United Kingdom
    Middle Europe: Austria; Belgium; Czech Republic; Germany; Hungary; Netherlands; Poland; Slovakia; Switzerland
    East Europe: Belarus; Russian Federation - European part; Ukraine [incl. Krym]
    Southeastern Europe: Albania; Bosnia and Herzegovina; Bulgaria; Croatia; Greece [incl. Crete]; Italy [incl. Sardinia, Sicily]; Montenegro; Romania; Serbia; Slovenia
    Southwestern Europe: France [incl. Corsica]; Portugal; Spain

      Naturalized:
  • widely naturalized in temperate regions

References:

  • Applequist, W. L. 2002. A reassessment of the nomenclature of Matricaria L. and Tripleurospermum Sch Bip. (Asteraceae). Taxon 51:757–761. [accepts].
  • Conrad, L. R. 2008. pers. comm. [re. common names].
  • Davis, P. H., ed. 1965–1988. Flora of Turkey and the east Aegean islands. (F Turk) [accepts].
  • Farr, E. R. et al., eds. 1979. Index nomina genericorum.; suppl. 1986 (ING) [suppl.].
  • Gleason, H. A. & A. Cronquist. 1963. Manual of vascular plants of northeastern United States and adjacent Canada. (Glea Cron)
  • Greuter, W. 1976. The flora of Psara (E. Aegean Islands, Greece) - an annotated catalogue. Candollea 31:227.
  • Grierson, A. J. C. in P. H. Davis, ed. 1974. Materials for a flora of Turkey: 30. Compositae, 1. Notes Roy. Bot. Gard. Edinburgh 33:252–254. [accepts].
  • Jeffrey, C. 1979. Note on the lectotypification of the names Cacalia, Matricaria L. and Gnaphalium L. Taxon 28:350.
  • Leung, A. Y. & S. Foster. 1996. Encyclopedia of common natural ingredients used in food, drugs, and cosmetics, ed. 2. (Ency CNatIn) [= M. recutita].
  • Markle, G. M. et al., eds. 1998. Food and feed crops of the United States, ed. 2. (Food Feed Crops US)
  • McGregor, R. L. et al. (The Great Plains Flora Association). 1986. Flora of the Great Plains. (F GPlains) [accepts].
  • McGuffin, M., J. T. Kartesz, A. Y. Leung, & A. O. Tucker. 2000. Herbs of commerce, ed. 2. (Herbs Commerce ed2) [= M. recutita].
  • Mouterde, P. 1966–. Nouvelle flore du Liban et de la Syrie. (F Liban) [accepts].
  • Pajaujis Anonis, D. 1993. Flower oils and floral compounds in perfumery. (Flower Oils) [accepts].
  • Porcher, M. H. et al. Searchable World Wide Web Multilingual Multiscript Plant Name Database (MMPND) - on-line resource. (Pl Names)
  • Radford, A. E. et al., eds. 1980–. Vascular flora of the southeastern United States. (F SE US) [accepts].
  • Rauschert, S. 1974. Nomenklatorische Probleme in der Gattung Matricaria L. Folia Geobot. Phytotax. 9:255. [= Chamomilla recutita (L.) Rauschert].
  • Rehm, S. 1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants. (Dict Rehm) [= M. recutita].
  • Scoggan, H. J. 1978–1979. The flora of Canada, 4 vol. (F Canada) [accepts].
  • Stace, C. 1995. New flora of the British Isles. (F BritStace) [= M. recutita].
  • Steyermark, J. A. 1977. Flora of Missouri. (F Missouri) [accepts].
  • Tutin, T. G. et al., eds. 1964–1980. Flora europaea. (F Eur) [= Chamomilla recutita (L.) Rauschert].
  • Zohary, M. & N. Feinbrun-Dothan. 1966–. Flora palaestina. (F Palest)
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Check other databases for Matricaria chamomilla L.:

  • Flora Europaea: Database of European Plants (ESFEDS)
  • Euro+Med Plantbase: Information Resource for Euro-Mediterranean Plant Diversity
  • PLANTS: USDA-NRCS Database of Plants of the United States and its Territories
  • Mansfeld: Mansfeld's World Database of Agricultural and Horticultural Crops
  • ePIC: Electronic Plant Information Centre of Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
  • AGRICOLA: Article Citation Database or NAL Catalog of USDA's National Agricultural Library
  • Entrez: NCBI's search engine for PubMed citations, GenBank sequences, etc.
    Note: Defaults to a search by genus or species epithet if species binomial not found.

Images:

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  • Check PlantSystematics.org for additional images
  • Google Images Images Note: Be advised that their identity may be inaccurate. Proper identification of a plant may require specialized taxonomic knowledge or comparison with properly documented herbarium material.

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