9. Tribe ANTHEMIDEAE

1. Tanacetum vulgare Linnaeus, Sp. Pl. 2: 844. 1753.
菊蒿 ju hao
Chrysanthemum boreale (Fischer ex Candolle) B. Fedtschenko
(1915), not Makino (1909); C. tanacetum Visiani; C.
vulgare (Linnaeus) Bernhardi (1800), not (Lamarck) Gaterau
(1789); C. vulgare subsp. boreale (Fischer ex Candolle) Voroschilov;
C. vulgare var. boreale (Fischer ex Candolle) Makino;
Pyrethrum vulgare (Linnaeus) Boissier; Tanacetum boreale Fischer
ex Candolle; T. crispum Steudel; T. vulgare subsp. boreale
(Fischer ex Candolle) Kuvaev; T. vulgare var. boreale (Fischer
ex Candolle) Trautvetter & C. A. Meyer.
Herbs, perennial, 30–150 cm tall, from creeping, ±
branched rhizome; stems solitary or clustered, erect, upper part
corymbosely branched, usually glabrous. Basal stem leaves
petiolate; leaf blade elliptic or elliptic-ovate, ca. 20 × 8–10 cm,
2-pinnatisect, both surfaces green or pale green; primary lateral
segments to 12-paired; ultimate segments ovate, obliquely triangular,
or narrowly elliptic; middle and upper stem leaves similar,
sessile. Synflorescence a ± dense flat-topped panicle. Capitula
(5–)10–70(–100), heterogamous, disciform. Involucre campanulate,
5–13 mm in diam.; phyllaries in 3 rows, scarious
margin narrow, white or brown, outer phyllaries ovate-lanceolate,
ca. 1.5 mm; middle and inner ones lanceolate, 3–4 mm. All
florets yellow, tubular; outer ones female, disk florets bisexual;
corolla 1.5–2.4 mm. Achenes 1.2–2 mm. Corona 0.1–0.4 mm,
margin dentate. Fl. and fr. Jun–Aug. 2n = 18, 18 + 2B.
Mountain slopes, grasslands, floodlands, meadows, meadowy
steppes, hills, forest understories; 200–2400 m. Heilongjiang, Nei Mongol,
Xinjiang [Japan, Kazakhstan, Korea, Mongolia, Russia, Turkmenistan;
Europe, North America].
The whole plant is used as an insecticide.
2. Tanacetum tanacetoides (Candolle) Tzvelev in Schischkin
& Bobrov, Fl. URSS 26: 337. 1961.
伞房菊蒿 san fang ju hao
Pyrethrum tanacetoides Candolle, Prodr. 6: 59. 1838;
Chrysanthemum tanacetoides (Candolle) B. Fedtschenko.
Herbs, perennial, 20–85 cm tall, with branched rhizomes;
stems erect, solitary or fascicled, upper parts corymbosely
branched, sparsely pilose with T-shaped and simple hairs. Basal
leaves: petiole 6–9 cm; leaf blade elliptic, ca. 10 × 2.5 cm, 2pinnatisect,
both surfaces green or gray-green, sparsely pilose;
primary lateral segments 10–15-paired; ultimate segments linear
or ovate. Stem leaves similar, sessile; uppermost leaves pinnatisect.
Synflorescence a lax flat-topped panicle. Capitula 3–
10(–18); peduncle slender, 2–5 cm. Involucre campanulate;
phyllaries in 4 rows, abaxially villous or pubescent with long or
short hairs, outer and middle ones triangular-lanceolate or narrowly
lanceolate, 2–4.5 mm, apex scarious-ampliate, inner ones
linear-elliptic, ca. 4 mm. Ray florets white, apex 3-denticulate.
Achenes ca. 2.5 mm. Corona 0.1–0.3 mm, margin denticulate.
Fl. and fr. Jun–Aug.
Rocky slopes; 500–1800 m. Xinjiang (Altay Shan) [Kazakhstan,
Russia].
3. Tanacetum crassipes (Stscheglejew) Tzvelev in Schischkin
& Bobrov, Fl. URSS 26: 338. 1961.
ANTHEMIDEAE
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密头菊蒿 mi tou ju hao
Pyrethrum crassipes Stscheglejew, Bull. Soc. Imp. Naturalistes
Moscou 27: 172. 1854; Chrysanthemum crassipes
(Stscheglejew) B. Fedtschenko.
Herbs, perennial, 20–60 cm tall, with branched rhizomes;
stems solitary or fascicled, upper parts corymbosely branched,
sparsely pilose with T-shaped and simple hairs. Basal leaves:
petiole 3–5 cm; leaf blade narrowly elliptic, 8–15 × ca. 2 cm, 2pinnatisect,
green or deep green, appressed pilose; primary lateral
segments 10–15-paired; ultimate segments linear-elliptic.
Stem leaves similar, few, sessile. Synflorescence a dense flattopped
cyme. Capitula 3–7; peduncle 0.5–1.5 cm, apex thicker.
Involucre campanulate, 7–10(–14) mm in diam.; phyllaries in 3
or 4 rows, abaxially with simple hairs, outer and middle phyllaries
lanceolate, 2.5–4 mm, apex scarious-ampliate, inner ones
narrowly linear-elliptic, ca. 4 mm. Ray florets yellow, apex 3denticulate.
Achenes ca. 2 mm. Corona ca. 0.3 mm, margin
denticulate. Fl. and fr. Jun–Aug.
Rocky slopes, forest understories, grasslands; ca. 2100 m. Xinjiang
(Altay Shan) [Kazakhstan, Russia].
4. Tanacetum barclayanum Candolle, Prodr. 6: 128. 1838.
阿尔泰菊蒿 a er tai ju hao
Pyrethrum achilleifolium M. Bieberstein var. discoideum
Karelin & Kirilov; P. turlanicum Pavlov; Tanacetum turlanicum
(Pavlov) Tzvelev.
Herbs, perennial, 25–50 cm tall; stems solitary, erect,
unbranched or few branched from base, subglabrous. Basal
leaves: petiole 2–10 cm; leaf blade ovate or narrowly elliptic,
4–8 × 2.5–4 cm, 2-pinnatisect, both surfaces sparsely pubescent
or glabrous; primary lateral segments 5-paired; ultimate segments
triangular, elliptic, or narrowly elliptic; stem leaves similar,
sessile or shortly petiolate; leaves below capitula small,
pinnatifid or undivided. Capitula solitary, terminal; peduncle 1–
10 cm. Involucre coryliform, 7–17 mm in diam.; phyllaries in
4 rows, abaxially glabrous or sparsely pubescent, scarious margin
brown, outer phyllaries lanceolate, ca. 3.5 mm, middle and
inner ones narrowly elliptic or linear-oblanceolate, ca. 5 mm,
abaxially glabrous. Ray florets red; lamina narrowly elliptic, ca.
1.6 cm, apex 2- or 3-denticulate. Achenes ca. 2.5 mm. Corona
0.1–0.2 mm, margin entire or minutely denticulate. Fl. and fr.
Jun–Aug.
sia].
Thickets; 500–2100 m. Xinjiang (Altay Shan) [Kazakhstan, Rus-
5. Tanacetum santolina C. Winkler, Trudy Imp. S.-Peterburgsk.
Bot. Sada 11: 375. 1891.
散头菊蒿 san tou ju hao
Chrysanthemum santolina (C. Winkler) B. Fedtschenko;
Pyrethrum kasakhstanicum Krascheninnikov.
Herbs, perennial, 20–30 cm tall; stems solitary or fascicled,
erect, upper parts corymbosely branched. Basal leaves:
petiole 6–8 cm; leaf blade linear or broadly linear, 6–8 × 2–3
cm, 2-pinnatisect, both surfaces gray-green, pilose with Tshaped
and simple hairs; primary lateral segments 10–12paired;
ultimate segments elliptic to elliptic-ovate. Stem leaves