Achillea millefolium

ACHILLEA millefolium
Milfoil, Yarrow

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Type:
Perennial

Height: 12-24" (30-60cm)

Flowering Time: Summer

Flower Colour: White, yellow, pink

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Botanical Classification:

Class:
Angiospermae (Angiosperms)

Subclass: Dicotyledonae (Dicotyledons)

Superorder: Asteridae (Daisy Superorder)

Order: Asterales (Daisy Order)

Family: Asteraceae (Daisy Family)

Genus: Achillea (Achillea)

Species: millefolium (1000 leaves)

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Achillea millefolium is a hardy aromatic perennial plant, growing wild in grassland, roadsides and waste places. In summer, it bears flat-topped clusters of small white daisy flowers on stems around a foot high. The leaves are deep green, finely divided, soft and ferny.
Yarrow is a traditional medicinal herb. It is used to treat loss of appetite and digestive problems, liver and gall-bladder complaints, for colds and flu, and in homeopathy to treat internal bleeding.
The leaves can be added to salads.
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Harvesting and Growing from Seed:

Germination:
Spring
Inside
(7 days)

Seed Pod There is no seed pod. The seeds are tightly set together in a tiny dry silvery head
for each 'flower'.
Seed The seeds are like tiny golden spearheads with a short black handle. They soon fall from the
seedhead, leaving a chaffy 'crown' behind.
Seedling The seedling is small, with long, narrow slightly toothed seedleaves. The first true
leaves are finely divided.

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				Germination: Spring Inside (7 days)
Seed Pod There is no seed pod. The seeds are tightly set together in a tiny dry silvery head for each 'flower'. Seed The seeds are like tiny golden spearheads with a short black handle. They soon fall from the seedhead, leaving a chaffy 'crown' behind. Seedling The seedling is small, with long, narrow slightly toothed seedleaves. The first true leaves are finely divided.