Editing Anacyclus pyrethrum (section)

{{short description|Species of plant}}
{{Speciesbox
|image = Anacyclus_pyrethrum_-_Köhler–s_Medizinal-Pflanzen-011.jpg
|image_caption = Mount Atlas daisy
|status_system = IUCN3.1
|status = VU
|status_ref = <ref name=iucn>{{cite journal|author=Rankou, H.|author2=Ouhammou, A.|author3=Taleb, M.|author4=Manzanilla, V.|author5=Martin, G.|name-list-style=amp|title=Anacyclus pyrethrum|journal=The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species|date=2015|issue=2015|doi=10.2305/IUCN.UK.2015-4.RLTS.T202924A53798702.en|doi-access=free}}</ref>
|genus = Anacyclus
|species = pyrethrum
|authority = ([[Carl Linnaeus|L.]]) [[Johann Heinrich Friedrich Link|Link]]
|synonyms = ''Anthemis pyrethrum'' L.<br/>
''Anacyclus depressus'' Ball<br/>
''Anacyclus freynii'' Willk.<br/>
''Anacyclus officinarum'' Hayne<br/>
Sources: E+M,<ref name="EUROMED">{{cite web
 | url = http://ww2.bgbm.org/EuroPlusMed/PTaxonDetail.asp?NameId=117602&PTRefFk=7000000
 | title = Details for: ''Anacyclus pyrethrum''
 | accessdate = 2008-06-16
 |author1=Botanic Garden | author-link = Botanical Garden in Berlin
   |author2=Botanical Museum Berlin-Dahlem
  |name-list-style=amp| work = Euro+Med PlantBase
 | publisher = [[Free University of Berlin|Freie Universität Berlin]]
 }}</ref> AFPD<ref name="afpd">{{cite web
 |url=http://www.ville-ge.ch/cjb/bd/africa/details.php?langue=an&id=135636
 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20130101090239/http://www.ville-ge.ch/cjb/bd/africa/details.php?langue=an&id=135636
 |url-status=dead
 |archive-date=January 1, 2013
 |title=''Anthemis pyrethrum'' record n° 135636 
 |accessdate=2008-06-16 
 |work=African Plants Database 
 |publisher=[[Natural History Museum of Geneva|South African National Biodiversity Institute, the Conservatoire et Jardin botaniques de la Ville de Genève]] and Tela Botanica 
}}</ref>
|}}

'''''Anacyclus pyrethrum''''', the '''pellitory''', '''Spanish chamomile''', '''Mount Atlas daisy''', '''bertram''', or '''Akarkara''', is a [[species]] of [[flowering plant]] in the daisy [[family (botany)|family]] Asteraceae.<ref name=AZEGP>{{cite book
| editor-last = Brickell
| editor-first = Christopher
| title = The Royal Horticultural Society A-Z Encyclopedia of Garden Plants
| year = 2008
| publisher = Dorling Kindersley
| location = United Kingdom
| isbn = 9781405332965}}</ref> It is [[native species|native]] to Mediterranean Europe and parts of North Africa, but also naturalised in other parts of Europe, India and Pakistan.<ref name = GRIN>{{GRIN}}</ref> This [[herbaceous]] [[perennial plant|perennial]] resembles [[chamomile]] species in habitat and appearance. 

The plants known as [[Parietaria officinalis|pellitory-of-the-wall]] and [[Parietaria judaica|spreading pellitory]] belong to a different family, the nettles ([[Urticaceae]]).