Chamaemelum nobile(L.) All.

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WFO wfo-0000014359 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC0 / CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Chamaemelum nobile, photographed by Robert H. Wardell
fig. a Robert H. Wardell, CC0 1.0 / 2020-09-10 / obs. 94954188

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Native range 8 botanical countries

Regions where Chamaemelum nobile is native: Algeria, Azores, Morocco, France, Great Britain, Ireland, Portugal, Spain AlgeriaMoroccoFranceIrelandPortugalSpain Azores
Native distribution of Chamaemelum nobile, 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
France FRA EUROPE
Great Britain GRB
Ireland IRE
Portugal POR
Spain SPA
Algeria ALG AFRICA
Azores AZO
Morocco MOR

Not drawn on the map: Great Britain. We hold no public-domain boundary for this region, so it is listed rather than guessed at.

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 93 in flower of 100 examined

Proportion of examined Chamaemelum nobile in flower, by month
Month In flower Examined Share 95% interval
Jan 4 5 80% 38% to 96%
Feb 4 4 too few examined
Mar 2 3 too few examined
Apr 5 7 71% 36% to 92%
May 17 19 89% 69% to 97%
Jun 13 14 93% 69% to 99%
Jul 4 4 too few examined
Aug 25 25 100% 87% to 100%
Sep 11 11 100% 74% to 100%
Oct 6 6 100% 61% to 100%
Nov 2 2 too few examined
Dec 0 0 too few examined

Peak flowering in Aug. Each bar is the share of Chamaemelum nobile 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. 93 of 100 examined observations were in flower, every one of them research grade. The whisker on each bar is a 95% Wilson interval. 5 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.

Also published as 18 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.

  • Anacyclus aureus L.
  • Anacyclus nobilis B.D.Jacks.
  • Anthemis aurea (L.) DC.
  • Anthemis nobilis L.
  • Anthemis santolinoides Munby
  • Chamaemelum nobile f. discoideum (Boiss. ex Willk.) Benedí
  • Chamaemelum nobile f. nobile
  • Chamaemelum nobile var. aureum (L.) Ladero, C.J.Valle, M.T.Santos, Trin.Ruiz & Fern.-Arias
  • Chamaemelum nobile var. discoideum (Boiss. ex Willk.) A.Fern.
  • Chamaemelum nobile var. discoideum (Boiss.) P.Silva
  • Chamaemelum nobile var. nobile
  • Chamaemelum romanum Garsault
  • Chamomilla aurea J.Gay
  • Chamomilla nobilis (L.) Godr.
  • Marcelia aurea Cass.
  • Ormenis nobilis (L.) J.Gay ex Coss. & Germ.
  • Ormenis nobilis subsp. aurea (L.) Maire
  • Ormenis nobilis var. nobilis

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.

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