Dear friends
I had uploaded a weed from Kashmir identified as Cotula anthemoides, and incidentally it also appears on Flowers of India
While visiting Kashmir again I found another plant similar to this one, and on thorough scrutiny discovered that my above plant is not Cotula anthemoides, which has lighter coloured heads and broader and shorter leaf segments. My plant is in fact Matricaria matricarioides or pineapple weed. Please go through the following link:
Here are some details about the plant:
Matricaria matricarioides (Less.) Porter ex Britton, Mem. Torrey Bot. Club. 5: 341. 1894.
syn: Artemisia matricarioides Less., Linnaea 6: 210. 1831; Matricaria discoidea DC.
Common names: Pineapple weed, false chamomile, rayless chamomile
Erect or ascending annual herb emitting pineapple like smell when leaves are crushed; leaves alternate up to 5 cm long, 2-pinnatisect with linear up to 2 mm wide ultimate segments; heads discoid, 7-12 mm across, conical, greenish yellow; involucre bracts oblong with broad hyaline margin and obtuse apex; florets tubular, 5-lobed; achene with a white corona.
Common in Kashmir along roadsides and wastelands, leaves resembling Anthemis cotula. Photographed from Srinagar Kashmir. I am again uploading the plant with correction.
The other species Matricaria area I am uploading separately.
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Dr. Gurcharan Singh
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