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'''''Anthemis nobilis''''', commonly known as '''Roman Camomile''', '''[[Chamomile]]''', '''garden camomile''', '''ground apple''', '''low chamomile''', '''English chamomile''', or '''whig plant''', is a low [[perennial plant]] found in dry fields and around [[garden]]s and cultivated grounds. It has daisy-like white flowers that is found in [[Europe]], [[North America]], and [[Argentina]]. The stem is procumbent, the leaves alternate, bipinnate, finely dissected, and downy to glabrous. The solitary, terminal flowerheads, rising 8 to twelve inches above the ground, consist of prominent yellow disk flowers and silver-white ray flowers. The flowering time is June and July, and its fragrance is sweet, crisp, fruity and herbaceous.
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Anthemis nobilis, Linn. Chamomile. Half-spreading and much-branched herb, downy, the Lvs. very finely dissected: pappus wanting, chaff of the receptacle blunt. Var. grandiflora, Hort., is larger-fld. than the type, and sometimes yellow-fld.—A pleasant-scented herb, sometimes escaped from cult. It yields the medicinal chammile fls. of commerce. For medicinal purposes, the heads (the single preferred) are cut as soon as fully expanded, and dried. Cult, also as a hardy border plant; often double.
 
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'''''Anthemis nobilis''''', commonly known as '''Roman Camomile''', '''[[Chamomile]]''', '''garden camomile''', '''ground apple''', '''low chamomile''', or '''whig plant''', is a low [[Europe]]an [[perennial plant]] found in dry fields and around [[garden]]s and cultivated grounds. The stem is procumbent, the leaves alternate, bipinnate, finely dissected, and downy to glabrous. The solitary, terminal flowerheads, rising 8 to twelve [[inch]]es above the ground, consist of prominent yellow disk flowers and silver-white ray flowers. The flowering time is June and July, and its fragrance is sweet, crisp, fruity and herbaceous.
 
  
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Chamomile is also used [[Cosmetics|cosmetically]], primarily to make a rinse for [[blonde hair]], and is popular in [[aromatherapy]], whose practitioners believe it to be a calming agent to end stress and aid in [[sleep]].
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The Chamomile is mentioned in [[Shakespeare]]'s [[Henry IV, part 1]] 'The Camomile; The more it is trodden on, the faster it grows'.
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[[Mary Wesley]]'s novel ''[[The Camomile Lawn]] was also televised in [[Great Britain]] in the 1990s.
 
  
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Use of Chamomile dates back as far as [[ancient Egypt]]. Folk remedies using the plant include treatments for [[dropsy]] and [[jaundice]]. it was also believed to revive any wilting plant placed near it. The flowers were also used as a [[dye]] to lighten hair.
 
  
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Howard, Michael. ''Traditional Folk Remedies'' (Century, 1987), p.112.
 
  
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==References==
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*[[Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture]], by L. H. Bailey, MacMillan Co., 1963
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<!--- xxxxx  *Flora: The Gardener's Bible, by Sean Hogan. Global Book Publishing, 2003. ISBN 0881925381  -->
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<!--- xxxxx  *American Horticultural Society: A-Z Encyclopedia of Garden Plants, by Christopher Brickell, Judith D. Zuk. 1996. ISBN 0789419432  -->
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<!--- xxxxx  *Sunset National Garden Book. Sunset Books, Inc., 1997. ISBN 0376038608  -->
  
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Latest revision as of 17:00, 19 January 2010


Anthemis nobilis


Plant Characteristics
Cultivation
Scientific Names

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Anthemis nobilis, commonly known as Roman Camomile, Chamomile, garden camomile, ground apple, low chamomile, English chamomile, or whig plant, is a low perennial plant found in dry fields and around gardens and cultivated grounds. It has daisy-like white flowers that is found in Europe, North America, and Argentina. The stem is procumbent, the leaves alternate, bipinnate, finely dissected, and downy to glabrous. The solitary, terminal flowerheads, rising 8 to twelve inches above the ground, consist of prominent yellow disk flowers and silver-white ray flowers. The flowering time is June and July, and its fragrance is sweet, crisp, fruity and herbaceous.

Cultivation

Propagation

Pests and diseases

Varieties

Gallery

  • Chamaemelum nobile1.jpg
  • Chamaemelum nobile2.jpg
  • Chamaemelum nobile seeds.jpg
  • Koeh-012.jpg
  • Chamaemelum nobile Sturm44.jpg

References

External links


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