| Scientific Name: | Achillea filipendulina 'Gold Plate' |
| Common Name: | Gold Plate yarrow |
| Family Name: | Asteraceae |
| Origin: | Central / west Asia, Garden origin |
| Hardiness Zone: | Zone 3: (-40 to -34 °C) |
| Plant Type: | Herbaceous perennial |
| Mature Size: | 0.7 - 1.3m x 0.3 - 0.6m (height x width) |
| Habit: | Stiffly upright |
| Form: | Mounded, Oval - vertical |
| Texture: | Medium - fine |
| Landscape Uses: | Attract beneficial insects, Attract butterflies, Cut flower or foliage, Dried flower or fruit, Perennial border |
| Exposure: | Full sun, Sheltered |
| Soil or Media: | Rocky or gravelly or dry |
| Leaves: | Dissected, Alternate, Soft flexible, Pubescent, Distinctive smell, Lanceolate, Oblong, Double serrate, Lacerate, Pinnately lobed |
| Flowers: | Head (capitulum), Yellow, Jul-Aug |
| Fruit: | Cypsela (achene + calyx), Brown, Sep-Oct |
| Key ID Features: | |
| Leaves deeply-dissected, 1-2 pinnatifid, hairy, fern-like, aromatic (spicy), oblong-lanceolate, 10-20cm long x 3-7cm wide, divided into as many as 15 pairs of linear-lanceolate toothed leaflet-like segments; heads small, 30-50 in a dense, flattened plate-like compound corymbs, 4-10cm wide, disk florets 15-30 per head, bright golden yellow, 2-3mm long, ray florets absent. | |