Cotula

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Cotula
Cotula coronopifolia
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae Division: Magnoliophyta Class: Magnoliopsida Order: Asterales Family: Asteraceae Tribe: Anthemideae Genus: Cotula L.

Cotula is a genus of flowering plant in the Asteraceae family. It includes about 55 species of plants known generally as water buttons or buttonweeds. Most are endemic to South Africa.

Selected species:

• Cotula anthemoides
• Cotula australis
• Cotula cinerea
• Cotula coronopifolia
• Cotula moseleyi
• Cotula pyrethrifolia
• Cotula rotundifolia

[edit] External links

• Information related to Cotula from Wikispecies.
• The Wikimedia Commons has media related to Cotula.

[edit] Further reading

• Jakubowsky, G. and L. Mucina. (2007). Phylogeny of the South African centred plant genus Cotula (Asteraceae). South African Journal of Botany 73:2 292.