Medicinal and Aromatic Crops

Description of the plant

• C. cinerariaefolium Vis. (2n=18) is a glaucous, perennial herb which grows up to 60 cm tall. It has an unbranched stem with short, scattered hairs below the flower.
  


• The leaves are petiolate, long finely cut and silky beneath, with distinct segments.
  


• Numerous flower-heads are borne which measure 6-9 mm when closed, and 9-12 mm, when open.
  


• The cream-colored floret looks like that of the field daisy (C. leucanthemum Linn.), but differs from the latter in having the central teeth of ray-floret shorter than the adjacent ones.