wildflower
Yarrow
Achillea millefolium
CautionNot foodcommon
Feathery aromatic leaves and a flat plate of tiny white flowers. Wound herb and fever tea.
A perennial with finely divided, ferny leaves that smell herbal when crushed. Flower heads are dense, flat-topped clusters of small daisy-like florets, usually white, sometimes pink.
- Habitat
- Dry roadsides, old pastures, gravel edges.
- Season
- June–September.
- Size
- 1–3 ft
- Field marks
- Feathery aromatic leaves; flat flower plate
Use
See Grow → Apothecary. Fresh leaf poultice on a shallow bleed. Tea or tincture for a fever sweat. Not in pregnancy.