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Monday 20 July 2015

Troödos chamomile - Anthemis plutonia (Meikle) - Ανθεµίς η πλουωνία - Endemic to Cyprus


Endemic to Cyprus

Anthemis plutoniaTroödos chamomile, is a pilose perennial herb in the sunflower family found only in Cyprus. It often forms intricate mats with prostate stems 5-20 cm long. Small bipinnatisect leaves. Capitula 15-20 mm in diameter, with pink rarely creamy-white tubular florets. Suborbicular ray-florets white, rarely pink.
Very common in dry igneous hillsides with sparse vegetation, vineyards, roadsides in the Troödos Mountains and Stavrovouni, where it grows from 250 m altitude up to the highest peaks at 1950 m
An endemic of Cyprus where it is restricted to the Troödos range: Stavros Psokas, Prodromos, Khionistra, Kryos Potamos, The Troödos forest, Palekhori, Makheras and Stavrovouni. Flowers March-July.
Photos Troodos,2/7/2015 by George Konstantinou





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