Cotula

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Read about Cotula in the Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture
Cotula (Greek, small cup, the bases of the clasping leaves forming a hollow or basin). Compositae. Small diffuse or much-branched strong-smelling annual or perennial yellow-flowered herbs, a few of the perennials sometimes used as carpeters in rock-gardens. Leaves alternate, toothed, lobed or pinnatisect: heads pedunculate, hemispherical or bell-shaped, many-fld. and discoid; outer or marginal florets nearly or quite apetalous, usually pistillate and fertile; disk- florets 4-toothed, fertile or male; torus naked; pappus not evident: achene glabrous, compressed.—About 50 or 60 species, largely in the southern hemisphere.^CH The above text is from the Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture. It may be out of date, but still contains valuable and interesting information which can be incorporated into the remainder of the article. Click on "Collapse" in the header to hide this text.

Cultivation

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C. lanata. Hook, f. (Leptinella lanata. Hook, f.). Stout and woolly: lvs. rather fleshy, pinnate or pinnatifid: florets glandular. New Zeal.^CH
C. lobata, Linn.= Lidbeckia.^CH
C. plumosa. Hook. f. (Leptinella plumosa, Hook. f.). Stout, soft-woolly: lvs. 3-4 times pinnatisect: florets not glandular. New Zeal.^CH
C. Squalida, Hook. f. (Leptinella Squalida, Hook f.).—Allied to C. dioica, with lvs. deeply pinnatifid and segms. incised. New Zeal.

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