Cotula alpina

Stoloniferous, rosetted, glabrous perennial. Leaves oblong in outline, mostly 2–4 cm long, 4–8 mm wide, 1-pinnatifid, stem-clasping at base, glandular, petiolate; pinnae lanceolate to ovate, acute, mucronate, sometimes irregularly toothed. Capitula 3–7 mm diam., terminal; peduncles shorter than leaves at anthesis (but to 5 cm in fruit), stout, hollow; involucral bracts many, oblong, 2–3 mm long, margins purplish. Female florets 3- or 4-seriate, corolla absent; inner florets usually functionally male, corolla c. 1 mm long, glandular. Cypselas more or less obovate, 1.5–2 mm long, compressed, glandular and sometimes ciliate distally, margins thickened and wing-like. Flowers summer.