Chamomile (Chamaemelum nobile) is a perennialherb of the family Compositae with a short, much branched creeping rhizome, low-growing, creeping or ascending hairy stems and alternate, finely divided (two or three times pinnate) leaves with inrolled margins. The flowerheads are terminal and solitary and have conical, solid receptacles and either white, ligulate ray-florets and yellow tubular disc-florets or in some cultivated species only ligulate florets. The receptacle bears chaffy scales between the florets.
Chamomile is a mild sedative, and is used as a herbal tea for insomnia and mild pain relief. Research Chamomile
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