Herbs or shrubs;
leaves without stipules; flowers in a head on a common receptacle, surrounded by
one or more rows of bracts; heads one to many; receptacle sometimes covered with
bracts or scales each subtending a flower; the calyx is gamesepalous, its tube
adherent to the ovary, its limb none or cup-shaped or developed into teeth,
scales, awns or bristles; corollas all alike in one head or dissimilar,
gamopetalous; stamens5, the anthers usually united entire; the stigmatic surface
variously located on the style; ovary inferior; fruit an achene often compressed
either laterally or parallel to the subtending chaff.
Anthemis arvensis
Cacaliopsis nardosmia (Luina nardosmia)
Leucanthemum vulgare (Chrysanthemum leucanthemum)
Matricaria discoidea (Matricaria matricarioides)
Rainiera stricta (Luina stricta)