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Scentless Mayweed

Tripleurospermum inodorum

Also called Scentless False Mayweed, False Chamomile, False Mayweed, Scentless Chamomile, Inland Scentless Mayweed

Scentless Mayweed
Photo: Georg Slickers, CC BY-SA 4.0

A low-growing annual or short-lived perennial weed of fields, roadsides and gardens, with feathery leaves and daisy-like white flowers with yellow centres. It is an opportunist that thrives in disturbed, open ground and is grown mainly as a weed rather than an ornamental.

Family
Asteraceae (Daisy family)
Grows as
Annual
Light
Full sun
Water
Needs little supplementary water; it copes well with dry spells once established.
Soil
Tolerates a wide range of soils, including poor and disturbed ground.
Temperature
Hardy in temperate climates; comfortable across cool to mild conditions, typical of its European and Siberian native range.
How easy
Easy
Native range
Europe to Siberia and Xinjiang.
Climate
temperate

About

Tripleurospermum inodorum, common names scentless false mayweed, scentless mayweed, scentless chamomile, and Baldr's brow, is the type species of Tripleurospermum. This plant is native to Eurasia, and introduced to North America, where it is commonly found in fields, fallow land and gardens.

Where it grows

T. inodorum grows in fields, fallow land, lawns, wasteland, roadsides, yards, gardens. It is an annual or short-lived perennial. It is native to Eurasia.

Other Tripleurospermum plants

False mayweed · Tripleurospermum subpolare · Tripleurospermum tenuifolium · Mayweed

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Tripleurospermum inodorum by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts and the care summary drawn from them are shared under the same licence.

The care summary was written by AI (Claude, Anthropic) from the sources on this page, with general growing knowledge where they are silent. Check before relying on it.

Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.

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