| Scientific Name: | Achillea millefolium cvs. |
| Common Name: | yarrow cultivars |
| Family Name: | Asteraceae |
| Origin: | Central / west Asia, Europe, Garden origin, North America |
| Hardiness Zone: | Zone 3: (-40 to -34 °C) |
| Plant Type: | Herbaceous perennial |
| Mature Size: | 0.4 - 0.7m x 0.3 - 0.6m (height x width) |
| Habit: | Spreading |
| Form: | Mounded |
| Texture: | Medium - fine |
| Landscape Uses: | Attract beneficial insects, Attract butterflies, Container planting, Cut flower or foliage, Dried flower or fruit, Group or mass planting, Perennial border, Small garden/space, Summer interest |
| Exposure: | Full sun |
| Soil or Media: | Rocky or gravelly or dry |
| Leaves: | Dissected, Alternate, Basal, Soft flexible, Pinnate venation, Distinctive smell, Lanceolate, Incised, Pinnately lobed, Pectinate |
| Flowers: | Head (capitulum), White, Orange, Yellow, Violet, Pink, Red, Dark-red, Jul-Aug-Sep |
| Fruit: | Cypsela (achene + calyx), Brown, Oct-Nov |
| Key ID Features: | |
| Leaves basal or alternate on flowering stem, fern-like, oblong-lanceolate, most 4-23cm long x 5-12cm wide, appearing 2-3 pinnate with all segments deeply dissected; corymbs of 10-100 heads <1cm wide, ray florets petal-like due to relatively large corollas and only about 5 per head, disk florets tiny and usually 10-20 per head. | |