Page authors: Don Knoke, David Giblin
Tripleurospermum inodorum
false chamomile, false mayweed, scentless mayweed
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Distribution: Occurring in scattered locations on both sides of the Cascades crest in Washington; Alaska to California, east across most of North America to the Atlantic Coast.

Habitat: Noxious weed in fields and waste ground in eastern Washington.

Flowers: June-September

Origin: Introduced from Europe

Growth Duration: Annual

Conservation Status: Not of concern

Pollination: Bees, flies, beetles, wasps

Description:
General:

Glabrous annual, biennial or occasionally perennial, nearly scentless herb, 1-6 dm. tall.

Leaves:

Leaves 2-8 cm. long, bipinnatifid, the ultimate segments mostly elongate, linear or liner-filiform.

Flowers:

Heads several or numerous, the disk 8-15 mm. wide; involucral bracts dry, in 2 series, the margins translucent; rays 12-25, white, 6-13 mm. long; disk flowers yellow, 5-toothed; receptacle hemispheric, naked; pappus a short crown.

Fruits:

Achenes roughened, with 2 marginal and 1 ventral thickened ribs.

Accepted Name:
Tripleurospermum inodorum (L.) Sch. Bip.
Publication: Tanaceteen. 32. 1844.

Synonyms & Misapplications:
Matricaria inodora L. [HC]
Matricaria maritima L. ssp. inodora (L.) Soó
Matricaria perforata Mérat
Tripleurospermum maritimum (L.) W.D.J. Koch ssp. inodorum (L.) Applequist
Tripleurospermum perforatum (Mérat) M. Lainz
Additional Resources:

PNW Herbaria: Specimen records of Tripleurospermum inodorum in the Consortium of Pacific Northwest Herbaria database

WA Flora Checklist: Tripleurospermum inodorum checklist entry

OregonFlora: Tripleurospermum inodorum information

E-Flora BC: Tripleurospermum inodorum atlas page

CalPhotos: Tripleurospermum inodorum photos

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