Mayweed is a
common name
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for two different species of flowering plants and also a name commonly used for several genera of the tribe
Anthemideae
Anthemideae is a tribe of flowering plants in the family, Asteraceae, and the subfamily Asteroideae. They are distributed worldwide with concentrations in central Asia, the Mediterranean Basin, and southern Africa.Oberprieler, C., et al. (2007) A ...
whose species are currently in a flux of renaming:
Species with the
common name
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of mayweed:
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Anthemis cotula
''Anthemis cotula'', also known as stinking chamomile, or mayweed, is a flowering annual plant with a noticeable and strong odor. The odor is often considered unpleasant, and it is from this that it gains the common epithet "stinking". In pre-col ...
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Anthemis arvensis
''Anthemis arvensis'', also known as corn chamomile, mayweed, scentless chamomile, or field chamomile is a species of flowering plant in the genus ''Anthemis'', in the aster family. It is used as an ornamental plant.
Distribution
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Oncosiphon suffruticosus
''Onocosiphon suffruticosus'' (often spelled ''suffruticosum''), commonly known as the shrubby mayweed, is a flowering plant native to Namibia and the Western Cape and Northern Cape provinces of South Africa. Additionally, it can now be found in ...
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Genera commonly called mayweed:
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Matricaria
''Matricaria'' is a genus of flowering plants in the chamomile tribe within the sunflower family. Some of the species have the common name of "mayweed," but this name also refers to plants not in this genus.
Most are very common in the temp ...
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Tripleurospermum
''Tripleurospermum'' is a genus in the chamomile tribe within the sunflower family. Mayweed is a common name for plants in this genus.
Most of the species are from Europe and temperate Asia although a few are from North America and North Afri ...
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