ACHILLEA millefolium Milfoil, Yarrow ____________________________________ Type: Perennial Height: 12-24" (30-60cm) Flowering Time: Summer Flower Colour: White, yellow, pink ____________________________________ 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) ____________________________________

Achillea millefolium is a hardy aromatic perennial plant, growing wild in grassland, roadsides and waste places. The species bears flat-topped clusters of small white daisy flowers throughout summer on stems around a foot high, but cultivated varieties can have flowers in various shades of pink and yellow. 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:

	Seed Pod There is no seedpod. The seeds are tightly set together in a tiny dry silvery head for each individual flower.
	Seed The seeds are liky 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.
Seed sowing and Germination Spring: Seeds sown inside in spring germinated in 7 days.