Japanese name: イヌカミツレ Scientific name:Tripleurospermum maritimum subsp. inodorum
[Overview]
An biennial 30–60 cm tall that often grows in colonies along roadsides, on road embankments, in grassland, and in fields.
It resembles chamomile (kamitsure) but has no fragrance.
The stem branches well in the upper part and is hairy at first, but later becomes hairless.
The leaves are alternate, 3–10 cm long, deeply pinnately divided two to three times, and the segments are further divided into thread-like parts.
The stem tips bear flower heads 3–4.5 cm across.
The flower heads consist of white ray florets and yellow tubular florets, with about 20 ray florets.
The receptacle rises in a hemispherical shape.
The fruit is an achene.
[History]
It arrived in Japan in the middle of the Meiji period.
