Cotula anthemoides L., it is an annual herb, erect or procumbent, 4-30 cm high, spreading by underground runners. Stems branched, sparsely arachnoid-pubescent to almost glabrous. Leaves alternate, dark green, pinnatisect or bipinnatisect, with dentate lobes, the leaf outline lanceolate, 2–5 cm long, 0.6–2 cm wide, base half-amplexicaul extending into a pseudo petiole up to 2 cm long, with up to 5 lobes on each side as well as a terminal lobe, up to 1 cm long, 0.3 cm wide, the lobes and their teeth apiculate, arachnoid-pubescent when young but glabrescent. Capitula terminal, solitary, 2-5 mm long, ± globose; capitulum stalk 0.6-1.3 cm long, sparsely pubescent; phyllaries 2-seriate, 16-27, obovate, 1-2.5 mm long, 0.5-1.2 mm wide, obtuse or rarely acute, with scarious margins; receptacle flat with remnants of floret stalks. Disc florets many (50+), yellow or pale yellow; the outer in several rows, on up to 0.6 mm long stalks; the inner sessile, corolla ± 1 mm long including 4 lobes to 0.2 mm long, anthers ± 0.3 mm long. Achenes dorsiventrally flattened and slightly concave above, slightly convex beneath, slightly obovoid, 1.2-1.5 mm long, 0.6-1 mm wide, 0.2-0.3 mm thick, with narrow wings widening towards the apex, apex rounded to sub cordate, with an unequal-sided mucro up to 0.3 mm long.
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