Anthemis arvensisL.

corn chamomile

WFO wfo-0000010729 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC BY / CC BY-SA

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Anthemis arvensis, photographed by Daniel Cahen
fig. a Daniel Cahen, CC BY 4.0 / 2021-07-24 / obs. 145904873

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Native range 44 botanical countries

Regions where Anthemis arvensis is native: Algeria, Azores, Canary Is., Egypt, Morocco, Tunisia, East Aegean Is., Iran, Iraq, North Caucasus, Sinai, Türkiye, Albania, Austria, Baleares, Baltic States, Belgium, Bulgaria, Central European Russia, Corse, Czechia-Slovakia, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Italy, Kriti, Netherlands, North European Russia, Northwest European Russia, Norway, NW. Balkan Pen., Portugal, Romania, Sardegna, Sicilia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Türkiye-in-Europe, Ukraine AlgeriaEgyptMoroccoTunisiaEast Aegean Is.IranIraqNorth CaucasusSinaiTürkiyeAlbaniaAustriaBaltic StatesBelgiumBulgariaCentral European RussiaCorseCzechia-SlovakiaDenmarkFinlandFranceGermanyGreeceHungaryIcelandItalyKritiNetherlandsNorth European RussiaNorthwest European RussiaNorwayNW. Balkan Pen.PortugalRomaniaSiciliaSpainSwedenSwitzerlandTürkiye-in-EuropeUkraine AzoresCanary Is.BalearesSardegna
Native distribution of Anthemis arvensis, after Kew’s World Checklist of Vascular Plants. Introduced, extinct and doubtful records are excluded, so this is where the plant is from, not everywhere it now grows. Regions too small to draw at this scale are marked with a dot.
RegionTDWG codeContinent
Albania ALB EUROPE
Austria AUT
Baleares BAL
Baltic States BLT
Belgium BGM
Bulgaria BUL
Central European Russia RUC
Corse COR
Czechia-Slovakia CZE
Denmark DEN
Finland FIN
France FRA
Germany GER
Greece GRC
Hungary HUN
Iceland ICE
Italy ITA
Kriti KRI
Netherlands NET
North European Russia RUN
Northwest European Russia RUW
Norway NOR
NW. Balkan Pen. YUG
Portugal POR
Romania ROM
Sardegna SAR
Sicilia SIC
Spain SPA
Sweden SWE
Switzerland SWI
Türkiye-in-Europe TUE
Ukraine UKR
Algeria ALG AFRICA
Azores AZO
Canary Is. CNY
Egypt EGY
Morocco MOR
Tunisia TUN
East Aegean Is. EAI ASIA-TEMPERATE
Iran IRN
Iraq IRQ
North Caucasus NCS
Sinai SIN
Türkiye TUR

Region boundaries approximated from Natural Earth (public domain) and mapped to TDWG World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions (WGSRPD) level-3 botanical countries (Brummitt 2001). Indicative, not the official WGSRPD geometry.

Flowering 65 in flower of 65 examined

Proportion of examined Anthemis arvensis in flower, by month
Month In flower Examined Share 95% interval
Jan 0 0 too few examined
Feb 1 1 too few examined
Mar 5 5 100% 57% to 100%
Apr 7 7 100% 65% to 100%
May 22 22 100% 85% to 100%
Jun 17 17 100% 82% to 100%
Jul 1 1 too few examined
Aug 6 6 100% 61% to 100%
Sep 1 1 too few examined
Oct 2 2 too few examined
Nov 1 1 too few examined
Dec 2 2 too few examined

Peak flowering in Mar. Each bar is the share of Anthemis arvensis observations in which someone actually recorded the reproductive state and found the plant in flower, not the raw number of flowering records. That distinction matters: people observe plants far more in spring than in winter, so a bare count of flowering records partly measures when people go outside. Dividing by the number examined removes that. 65 of 65 examined observations were in flower, every one of them research grade. The whisker on each bar is a 95% Wilson interval. 7 months have fewer than 5 examined observations, so no proportion is drawn for them. This is still a global aggregate and not a forecast for your garden: the same species flowers on different dates in different hemispheres. Where a species has fewer than 30 flowering records we do not draw this chart at all. Computed from 10.15468/dl.cgje2x.

Where it actually grows measured, from 570 observations

Condition 5th percentile Median 95th percentile
Coldest month, mean daily low -7.9 °C -4.1 °C 7.1 °C
Warmest month, mean daily high 20.6 °C 23.3 °C 31.1 °C
Annual rainfall 529 mm 704 mm 1,267 mm
Rainfall in the driest quarter 39 mm 113 mm 253 mm

It is found where winters bring hard frost. This is not care advice and it is not a forecast. It is a measurement: we sampled the climate at every one of the 570 research-grade observations of Anthemis arvensis that carry a coordinate, and this is the range those places actually span. The 5th and 95th percentiles are used rather than the minimum and maximum, because a single cultivated specimen in a heated conservatory should not widen a tropical plant's range to the Arctic.

This is not a hardiness zone. A USDA zone is the average annual extreme minimum temperature. The figure above is the mean daily minimum of the coldest month, which is a different quantity and is typically far warmer. Reading one as the other would place a plant several zones too warm, so we do not publish a hardiness zone, because we do not have one. Climate from CHELSA V2.1 (Karger et al. 2017); occurrences from 10.15468/dl.cgje2x.

Also published as 22 synonyms

A synonym is not an error. It is a record of botanists disagreeing, in print, about where this plant belongs. Each of these was somebody’s considered answer.

  • Anthemis agrestis Wallr.
  • Anthemis anglica Spreng.
  • Anthemis arvensis subsp. nicaeensis (Willd.) Rouy
  • Anthemis arvensis subsp. nicaeensis (Willd.) Albert & Johans.
  • Anthemis arvensis var. agrestis (Wallr.) DC.
  • Anthemis arvensis var. arvensis
  • Anthemis arvensis var. humilis Gay ex Rouy
  • Anthemis australis Willd.
  • Anthemis brevifolia Lojac.
  • Anthemis clavata Guss.
  • Anthemis cyllenea Halácsy
  • Anthemis granatensis Boiss.
  • Anthemis incrassata Loisel.
  • Anthemis kitenensis Thin
  • Anthemis nicaeensis Willd.
  • Anthemis pedunculata var. laevis (Emb. & Maire) Maire
  • Anthemis ruthenica subsp. requienii Nyman
  • Anthemis sallei Sennen & Elias
  • Anthemis sphacelata C.Presl
  • Anthemis tuberculata var. laevis Emb. & Maire
  • Chamaemelum arvense (L.) Schreb.
  • Chamaemelum arvense (L.) Hoffmanns. & Link

Sourcesevery claim on this page

  1. World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
  2. iNaturalist. photographs and flowering annotations, CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA only. per photograph. Retrieved 2026-06-27.
  3. Wikidata. common name (P1843), joined on the World Flora Online identifier (P7715). CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-13.
  4. Kew, World Checklist of Vascular Plants (WCVP v16). native distribution by TDWG level-3 botanical country, and life form. CC BY 3.0. Retrieved 2026-06-04.

We publish what we can source and we say so when we cannot. This page has no care advice and no toxicity claim, because we do not yet have those from a source we can cite.