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Latin name: Matricaria matricarioides
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Family: Asteraceae
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Common name: pineapple weed
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Life cycle: annual, reproducing by
seed
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Habit: Low growing, bushy
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Foliage: Foliage is pale blue-green
and deeply dissected. When leaves are crushed, they emit a pleasant
odor similar to pineapples (hence the common name), which is a good way to
distinguish this weed from mayweed chamomile.
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Flower: Flower heads are solitary,
but like other weeds in the family Asteraceae, each flower head is comprised
of many individual ray and/or disk flowers. Pineapple weed only has
disk flowers. They lack the showy petal-like ray flowers. Pineapple
weed looks much like mayweed chamomile, but pineapple weed lacks the showy
white petals found on mayweed.
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Look alikes: Mayweed chamomile
(Anthemis cotula)
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