| Scientific Name: | Achillea millefolium |
| Common Name: | common yarrow |
| Family Name: | Asteraceae |
| Origin: | Central / west Asia, Europe, North America |
| Hardiness Zone: | Zone 2: (-46 to -40 °C) |
| Plant Type: | Herbaceous perennial, Weed (horticultural) |
| Mature Size: | 0.7 - 1.3m x 0.6 - 1.0m (height x width) |
| Habit: | Stiffly upright |
| Form: | Mounded |
| Texture: | Medium - fine |
| Landscape Uses: | Medicinal plant, Perennial border |
| Exposure: | Full sun |
| Soil or Media: | Rocky or gravelly or dry |
| Leaves: | Simple, Dissected, Alternate, Basal, Soft flexible, Pinnate venation, Pubescent, Distinctive smell, Lanceolate, Linear, Lacerate, Pinnately lobed, Pectinate |
| Flowers: | Head (capitulum), White, Jul-Aug |
| Fruit: | Achene, Brown, Jun-Aug |
| Key ID Features: | |
| Leaves basal or alternate on flowering stem, fern-like, oblong-lanceolate, most 4-10(-30)cm long x 1-4cm wide, appearing 2-3 pinnate with all segments deeply dissected; corymbs of 10-100 heads 6-8mm wide, ray florets (3-)4-6(-8) greyish-white and petal-like, disk florets 5-20(-40) cream coloured and 2-4mm long; achenes 1-2mm long, flattened, without hairs. | |