Comprehensive Description
provided by North American Flora
Ormenis mixta (L.) Dumort. Fl. Belg. 69. 1827
Anlhemis mixta I,. Sp. PI. 894. 1753. Chamaemelum mixlum All. Fl. Fed. 1: 185. 1785. Ormenis bicolor Cass. Diet. Sci. Nat. 36: 356. 1825.
A low leafy fragrant annual; stem 1-4 dm. high, villous-pubescent with spreading branches; leaves 1-3 cm. long, villous-pubescent, cuneate-oblong in outline, pinnatifid, with a broad rachis and entire or toothed oblanceolate divisions, the teeth callousor spinulose-tipped; involucre 4 mm. high and 8-10 mm. broad; bracts oblong, obtuse, villous; ray-flowers 10-15; ligules white with a yellow base, 6-8 mm. long, about 3 mm. wide; disk-corollas yellow; tube longer than the throat; achenes 1 mm. long, yellowish.
Type locautv: Italy.
DisTRiBUTio.-^: New Jersey; Pennsylvania; Florida; Vancouver Island; adventive from the Mediterranean region,
- bibliographic citation
- Per Axel Rydberg. 1916. (CARDUALES); CARDUACEAE; TAGETEAE, ANTHEMIDEAE. North American flora. vol 34(3). New York Botanical Garden, New York, NY
