''Anthemis cretica'', the Cretian mat daisy or white mat chamomile, is a species of flowering plant in the family

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. It or its many subspecies can be found around the Mediterranean region, the Black Sea area, Poland, the Caucasus, and the Middle East as far as Iran. It is highly morphologically variable, and the namesake of a

species complex In biology, a species complex is a group of closely related organisms that are so similar in appearance and other features that the boundaries between them are often unclear. The taxa in the complex may be able to hybridize readily with each oth ...

Subtaxa

The following subspecies are accepted: *''Anthemis cretica'' subsp. ''absinthifolia'' (Boiss.) Grierson – Turkey *''Anthemis cretica'' subsp. ''albida'' (Boiss.) Grierson – Turkey *''Anthemis cretica'' subsp. ''alpina'' (L.) R.Fernandes – central

Apennines The Apennines or Apennine Mountains (; grc-gre, links=no, Ἀπέννινα ὄρη or Ἀπέννινον ὄρος; la, Appenninus or – a singular with plural meaning;''Apenninus'' (Greek or ) has the form of an adjective, which wou ...

(Italy) *''Anthemis cretica'' subsp. ''anatolica'' (Boiss.) Grierson – east Aegean Islands (Geece), Turkey,

East Thrace East Thrace or Eastern Thrace ( tr, Doğu Trakya or simply ''Trakya''; el, Ανατολική Θράκη, ''Anatoliki Thraki''; bg, Източна Тракия, ''Iztochna Trakiya''), also known as Turkish Thrace or European Turkey, is the pa ...

(European Turkey) *''Anthemis cretica'' subsp. ''argaea'' (Boiss. & Balansa) Grierson – Turkey *''Anthemis cretica'' subsp. ''calabrica'' (Arcang.) R.Fernandes – southern Italy *''Anthemis cretica'' subsp. ''candicans'' (Boiss.) Grierson – Turkey * ''Anthemis cretica'' subsp. ''carpatica'' (Willd.) Grierson – Albania, Austria, Bulgaria, France, Greece, Poland, Romania, Spain, Turkey, Ukraine, the former Yugoslavia *''Anthemis cretica'' subsp. ''cassia'' (Boiss.) Grierson – Lebanon, Syria, Turkey *''Anthemis cretica'' subsp. ''cinerea'' (Pancic) Oberpr. & Greuter – Bulgaria, the former Yugoslavia *''Anthemis cretica'' subsp. ''columnae'' (Ten.) Franzén – Algeria, France, Italy,

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*''Anthemis cretica'' subsp. ''cretica'' – Albania, Bulgaria, Greece, Iran, Lebanon, Syria, Romania, Turkey, East Thrace, the former Yugoslavia *''Anthemis cretica'' subsp. ''gerardiana'' (Jord.) Greuter – southeast France *''Anthemis cretica'' subsp. ''iberica'' (M.Bieb.) Grierson –

North Caucasus The North Caucasus, ( ady, Темыр Къафкъас, Temır Qafqas; kbd, Ишхъэрэ Къаукъаз, İṩxhərə Qauqaz; ce, Къилбаседа Кавказ, Q̇ilbaseda Kavkaz; , os, Цӕгат Кавказ, Cægat Kavkaz, inh, ...

Transcaucasus The South Caucasus, also known as Transcaucasia or the Transcaucasus, is a geographical region on the border of Eastern Europe and Western Asia, straddling the southern Caucasus Mountains. The South Caucasus roughly corresponds to modern Arme ...

, Turkey *''Anthemis cretica'' subsp. ''leucanthemoides'' (Boiss.) Grierson – east Aegean Islands,

Crete Crete ( el, Κρήτη, translit=, Modern: , Ancient: ) is the largest and most populous of the Greek islands, the 88th largest island in the world and the fifth largest island in the Mediterranean Sea, after Sicily, Sardinia, Cyprus, and ...

, Turkey *''Anthemis cretica'' subsp. ''messanensis'' (Brullo) Giardina & Raimondo – Sicily *''Anthemis cretica'' subsp. ''panachaica'' (Halácsy) Oberpr. & Greuter –

Panachaiko The Panachaiko ( el, Παναχαϊκό, "Panachaean"), also known as Vodias (Βοδιάς) mainly at the Middle Ages, is a mountain range in Achaea, Peloponnese, Greece. It spans about 20 km in length from north to south, and 15–20 k ...

mountains of southern Greece *''Anthemis cretica'' subsp. ''petraea'' (Ten.) Greuter – central Apennines *''Anthemis cretica'' subsp. ''pyrethriformis'' (Schur) Govaerts – southern

Carpathians The Carpathian Mountains or Carpathians () are a range of mountains forming an arc across Central Europe. Roughly long, it is the third-longest European mountain range after the Ural Mountains, Urals at and the Scandinavian Mountains at . The ...

(Romania) *''Anthemis cretica'' subsp. ''saportana'' (Albov) Chandjian – Iran, North Caucasus, Transcaucasus *''Anthemis cretica'' subsp. ''saxatilis'' (DC.) R.Fernandes – France,

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, Spain, Italy *''Anthemis cretica'' subsp. ''tenuiloba'' (DC.) Grierson – Albania, Bulgaria, Greece, Lebanon, Syria, Turkey, East Thrace, the former Yugoslavia *''Anthemis cretica'' subsp. ''umbilicata'' (Boiss. & A.Huet) Grierson – Iran, Turkey

References

cretica Flora of Algeria Flora of Spain Flora of France Flora of Poland Flora of Austria Flora of Ukraine Flora of Southeastern Europe Flora of the Caucasus Flora of the East Aegean Islands Flora of Turkey Flora of Lebanon Flora of Syria Flora of Iran Plants described in 1753 Taxa named by Carl Linnaeus {{Asteroideae-stub