| Achillea millefolium L. | |||
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| Family | Compositae — APG family: Asteraceae | ||
| Common name | common yarrow | ||
| Description | Strongly scented; stem simple or forking above, from long, slender rootstock; leaves lanceolate, 3—4 times pinnate with lanceolate-subulate segments, the lower long-petiolated; heads in dense terminal corymbs; involucral bracts oblong, blunt, more or less glabrous, with broad, brown or blackish, scarious margin; ray flowers 3-toothed, white, pink, or reddish; disk flowers white or cream-colored. | ||
| Ecology | An introduced weed. Described from Europe. Circumpolar map tentative. |
This is a digital representation of Eric Hultén’s ‘Flora of Alaska and Neighboring Territories: A Manual of the Vascular Plants’, which was published by Stanford University Press in 1968. The book was digitized by C. Webb (at UAMN) as part of the Flora of Alaska project, with funding by the US NSF (Grant 1759964 to Ickert-Bond & Webb), and with permission of Stanford University Press. Data and images © 1968 Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Jr. Univ. Usage licence: Creative Commons BY-NC-SA 4.0. NB: You may find OCR errors; please refer to the hard-copy if in doubt.