Aromatic perennial, 10-75 cm tall, usually with rhizomes.
Leaves are fern like, pinnately dissected, with divisions again dissected.
Flowers are composite heads, usually with 5 white to pink or rose ray flowers and 10-30 cream-coloured disk flowers; involucre of several rows overlapping bracts; inflorescence of many heads in a hemispheric or flat-topped cluster.
Fruits are flat achenes, without a pappus.
Widespread and common in opened fields.
Humans use for teas and tinctures.
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