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{{Taxobox | color = lightgreen
| name = ''Matricaria perforata''
| image = Tripleurospermum perforatum 20041012 2572.jpg|
| image_width = 240px
| regnum = [[Plant]]ae
| divisio = [[Flowering plant|Magnoliophyta]]
| classis = [[Magnoliopsida]]
| ordo = [[Asterales]]
| familia = [[Asteraceae]]
| genus = ''[[Matricaria]]''
| species = '''''M. perforata'''''
| binomial = ''Matricaria perforata''
}}
'''''Matricaria perforata''''' is a species of [[Mayweed]].
The taxonomy of the genus [[Mayweed|Matricaria]] has been the subject of some controversy, with many revisions in recent years. The [[Flora Europaea]] uses ''Matricaria perforata'' for this species. Synonyms/other scientific names include ''Tripleurospermum perforatum'' (Mérat) Lainz, ''Tripleurospermum maritimum'' subsp. ''inodorum'', ''Tripleurospermum inodorum''.
Common name(s): scentless mayweed, scentless chamomile, wild chamomile, mayweed, false chamomile, German chamomile, [[Baldr]]'s Brow
Origin Eurasia, North Africa
Considered an invasive weed in North America
==Mythology==
In [[Sweden]] and [[Norway]], it is called ''[[Balder]]'s brow'', but in [[Iceland]], it is the close relative [[Sea Mayweed]] (''Matricaria maritima'') that carries this name<ref>[http://linnaeus.nrm.se/flora/di/astera/tripl/tripper.html Den virtuella floran (in Swedish)]</ref>. In ''[[Gylfaginning]]'', [[Snorri Sturluson]] explains that the name Balder's brow comes from the plants' whiteness:
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:''Annarr sonr Óðins er Baldr, ok er frá honum gott at segja. Hann er svá fagr álitum ok bjartr svá at lýsir af honum, ok eitt gras er svá hvítt at jafnat er til Baldrs brár. Þat er allra grasa hvítast, ok þar eptir máttu marka fegrð hans bæði á hár ok á líki. Hann er vitrastr ása ok fegrst talaðr ok líknsamastr. En sú náttúra fylgir honum at engi má haldask dómr hans. Hann býr þar sem heita Breiðablik, þat er á himni. Í þeim stað má ekki vera óhreint[.]''<ref>[http://www.hi.is/~eybjorn/gg/ggupar17.html An online edition of the Old Norse text.]</ref>
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:The second son of [[Odin]] is Baldr, and good things are to be said of him. He is best, and all praise him; he is so fair of feature, and so bright, that light shines from him. A certain herb is so white that it is likened to Baldr's brow; of all grasses it is whitest, and by it thou mayest judge his fairness, both in hair and in body. He is the wisest of the [[Æsir]], and the fairest-spoken and most gracious; and that quality attends him, that none may gainsay his judgments. He dwells in the place called [[Breidablik]], which is in heaven; in that place may nothing unclean be[.]<ref>[http://www.northvegr.org/lore/prose/033036.php ''Brodeur's translation'' in English.]</ref>
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==References and footnotes==
{{reflist}}
==See also==
* [[List of Asteraceae genera]]
{{asteraceae-stub}}
| name = ''Matricaria perforata''
| image = Tripleurospermum perforatum 20041012 2572.jpg|
| image_width = 240px
| regnum = [[Plant]]ae
| divisio = [[Flowering plant|Magnoliophyta]]
| classis = [[Magnoliopsida]]
| ordo = [[Asterales]]
| familia = [[Asteraceae]]
| genus = ''[[Matricaria]]''
| species = '''''M. perforata'''''
| binomial = ''Matricaria perforata''
}}
'''''Matricaria perforata''''' is a species of [[Mayweed]].
The taxonomy of the genus [[Mayweed|Matricaria]] has been the subject of some controversy, with many revisions in recent years. The [[Flora Europaea]] uses ''Matricaria perforata'' for this species. Synonyms/other scientific names include ''Tripleurospermum perforatum'' (Mérat) Lainz, ''Tripleurospermum maritimum'' subsp. ''inodorum'', ''Tripleurospermum inodorum''.
Common name(s): scentless mayweed, scentless chamomile, wild chamomile, mayweed, false chamomile, German chamomile, [[Baldr]]'s Brow
Origin Eurasia, North Africa
Considered an invasive weed in North America
==Mythology==
In [[Sweden]] and [[Norway]], it is called ''[[Balder]]'s brow'', but in [[Iceland]], it is the close relative [[Sea Mayweed]] (''Matricaria maritima'') that carries this name<ref>[http://linnaeus.nrm.se/flora/di/astera/tripl/tripper.html Den virtuella floran (in Swedish)]</ref>. In ''[[Gylfaginning]]'', [[Snorri Sturluson]] explains that the name Balder's brow comes from the plants' whiteness:
{|
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:''Annarr sonr Óðins er Baldr, ok er frá honum gott at segja. Hann er svá fagr álitum ok bjartr svá at lýsir af honum, ok eitt gras er svá hvítt at jafnat er til Baldrs brár. Þat er allra grasa hvítast, ok þar eptir máttu marka fegrð hans bæði á hár ok á líki. Hann er vitrastr ása ok fegrst talaðr ok líknsamastr. En sú náttúra fylgir honum at engi má haldask dómr hans. Hann býr þar sem heita Breiðablik, þat er á himni. Í þeim stað má ekki vera óhreint[.]''<ref>[http://www.hi.is/~eybjorn/gg/ggupar17.html An online edition of the Old Norse text.]</ref>
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:The second son of [[Odin]] is Baldr, and good things are to be said of him. He is best, and all praise him; he is so fair of feature, and so bright, that light shines from him. A certain herb is so white that it is likened to Baldr's brow; of all grasses it is whitest, and by it thou mayest judge his fairness, both in hair and in body. He is the wisest of the [[Æsir]], and the fairest-spoken and most gracious; and that quality attends him, that none may gainsay his judgments. He dwells in the place called [[Breidablik]], which is in heaven; in that place may nothing unclean be[.]<ref>[http://www.northvegr.org/lore/prose/033036.php ''Brodeur's translation'' in English.]</ref>
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==References and footnotes==
{{reflist}}
==See also==
* [[List of Asteraceae genera]]
{{asteraceae-stub}}