This plant is native to Eurasia,[2] and introduced to North America, where it is commonly found in fields, fallow land and gardens.

Stems are single, erect, branched in the upper plant, weakly ridged or lined, hairless though sparsely hairy when young.

The capitula's ray-florets are white, tongue-like, tip shallowly 3-toothed; disc florets are yellow, tubular, small.

False mayweed achenes are a similar size, brown colour, and rectangular shape as scentless chamomile.

[8] Historically included the genus Matricaria, Tripleurospermum inodorum has been the subject of some controversy, with many revisions in recent years.

[8] In Sweden and Norway, it is called Baldr's brow, but in Iceland, it is the close relative sea mayweed (Matricaria maritima) that carries this name.

[12] In Gylfaginning, Snorri Sturluson explains that the name Balder's brow comes from the plants' whiteness: Media related to Tripleurospermum inodorum at Wikimedia Commons