| Scientific Name: | Tanacetum vulgare |
| Common Name: | common tansy |
| Family Name: | Asteraceae |
| Origin: | Europe |
| Hardiness Zone: | Zone 4: (-34 to -29 °C) |
| Plant Type: | Herbaceous perennial, Invasive plant |
| Mature Size: | 1.3 - 2.0m x 0.1 - 0.3m (height x width) |
| Habit: | Stiffly upright |
| Form: | Oval - vertical |
| Texture: | Medium - coarse |
| Landscape Uses: | Attract beneficial insects |
| Exposure: | Full sun |
| Soil or Media: | Well-drained |
| Leaves: | Compound, Alternate, Soft flexible, Pinnate venation, Pubescent, Tripinnate, Lanceolate, Pinnately lobed |
| Flowers: | Head (capitulum), Yellow, Jul-Aug |
| Fruit: | Cypsela (achene + calyx), Brown, Sep-Oct |
| Key ID Features: | |
| Leaves alternate, leaflets pinnate; stems narrow, reddish brown; inflorescence corymb of yellow, flat head, disk florets only, lack ray florets. | |