About Anthemis arvensis L.
Anthemis arvensis, which also goes by the common names corn chamomile, mayweed, scentless chamomile, and field chamomile, is a species of flowering plant that belongs to the aster family. This species is used as an ornamental plant.
Anthemis arvensis is native to the Palearctic realm. Its native distribution includes: Macaronesia (the Azores and Canary Islands); Northern Africa (Algeria and Tunisia); Western Asia (Sinai, Iran, Iraq, Saudi Arabia, and Turkey); the Caucasus (Georgia and North Caucasus); Northern Europe (Denmark, Finland, Ireland, Norway, Sweden, and the United Kingdom); Central Europe (Austria, Belgium, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Germany, Hungary, Netherlands, Poland, and Switzerland); Eastern Europe (Belarus, Moldova, Ukraine, and Crimea); Southeastern Europe (Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Greece, Crete, Italy, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Romania, Sardinia, Serbia, Sicily, and Slovenia); and Southwestern Europe (France, Corsica, Portugal, Spain, and the Balearic Islands).
It has been widely introduced outside its native range and is now naturalized across North America, South America, Africa, Australia, New Zealand, and parts of Asia.
