Irish wildflowers sitemap


Photos: nr Ballingeary, Co.Cork

Chamomile
Chamaemelum nobile
Camán meall
Family: Asteraceae

Flowering time: June-August. Perennial. Native.

Strongly chamomile-scented solitary white flowers with domed yellow centres. Erect flower stalks. Pinnate leaves divided into narrow segments. Creeping growth habit. The whole plant is aromatic. Height: 10-30 cm

Dry sandy grassland, roadsides. Locally common SW Ireland, scarcer elsewhere.

Similar: Scentless Mayweed, Tripleurspernum inodorum,
Sea Mayweed, Tripleurospernum maritimum
     


    



Chamomile. Near Glengarriff, County Cork. 2008

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