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Common and widespread throughout the UK. Habitat includes: disturbed / cultivated places such as gardens, parks, allotments, churchyards, wasteland, arable fields, roadside verges, tracks, gateways, railway ballast, spoil heaps etc. Flowers: July to September. Growing habit: Annual. ID: confusingly Scentless Mayweed can be scented. The best way to tell scentless apart from scented is by slicing through the receptacle (centre bit of the flower). If it's not hollow it's Scentless if it is hollow then it's Scented. Scentless Mayweed also has larger flowers than Scented Mayweed, Scentless has bracts with brown edges where as in Scented it is absent. Introduced during the Bronze Age. Native to the Eurosiberian Temperate region.