Yarrow
അച്ചില്ലി മില്ലെഫോളിയം
Achillea millefolium L.
- light
- Full sun
- water
- Medium
- tall
- 71 cm
- wide
- 41 cm
Asteraceae
Also called Common yarrow complex, Complex Achillea millefolium, Milfoil, Common yarrow
Formerly Alitubus millefolium, Chamaemelum millefolium, Santolina millefolium
When it flowers
Not known yet in the tropics: too few flowering observations to read a season from.
Read from iNaturalist photographs of it in flower. A month counts at 50% of the best month's flowering share (smoothed over three months) and 10% of its flowering count, from at least 100 flowering observations in the band.
If a child, a pet or anyone may have eaten a plant, contact a doctor or vet straight away, or call the National Poisons Information Centre (AIIMS, New Delhi) on 1800 116 117, free and open 24 hours.
Something wrong with it?About it
- Grows as
- PerennialKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Climate
- TemperateKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Wild in
- Greenland, Subarctic & Temp. EurasiaKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Light
- Full sun (6 h or more)Read from RHS and NC State Extension, checked by a majority of its sourcesBacked by both sources
- Height
- 51 cm to 91 cmRead from RHS and NC State Extension, checked by a majority of its sourcesBacked by both sources. Sources differ: RHS 0.5–1 m; NC State Extension 1–3 ft
- Spread
- 30 cm to 51 cmRead from RHS and NC State Extension, checked by a majority of its sourcesBacked by both sources. Sources differ: RHS 0.1–0.5 m; NC State Extension 12–46 in
- Water
- Average: moist, well drainedRead from RHS and NC State Extension, not yet checked: its sources are splitTied: no reading has a majority of the 2 sources, so all are kept for a person to settle. Sources differ: RHS medium; NC State Extension low
- Flowers
- White, cream, pinkRead from RHS and NC State Extension, checked by a majority of its sourcesBacked by both sources. Sources differ: RHS cream, pink, white; NC State Extension cream, orange, pink, purple, red, white, yellow
- Coldest it survives
- -30 °C (USDA zone 4b)Read from RHS and NC State Extension, checked: the middle of what its sources sayHalfway between its 2 sources, which differ. Sources differ: RHS -20 °C; NC State Extension -40 °C
Not known yet: heat, hottest it survives.
In other languages (12)
- German
- Artengruppe Gemeine Schafgarbe, Gemeine Schafgarbe
- Chinese (China)
- 蓍复合群
- Czech
- okruh řebříčku obecného, řebříček obecný
- root
- margblømdur rølikur, 10290, Vallhumall
- Afrikaans
- duisendblaarachillea
- Hungarian
- közönséges cickafark
- Latvian
- Parastais pelašķis
- Thai
- ยาร์โรว์ ฯลฯ
- Dutch
- Gewoon duizendblad-complex, duizendblad, Duizendblad
- Chinese
- 蓍, 蓍草, 蓍实
- Simplified Chinese
- 蓍, 千叶蓍, 欧蓍
- Asturian
- cenoyina
Where this comes from
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-24, CC0-1.0 (observation counts)
- Wikidata, read 2026-10-26, CC0-1.0
- Kew's checklist, read 2026-10-24, CC-BY-4.0
- RHS, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- NC State Extension, read 2026-10-28, fact, cited
- Wikimedia Commons, read 2026-10-24, CC BY-SA 3.0
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY
- 3D model: Achillea millefolium (built for Vanagrha) by Vanagrha, own
A fact “checked by a majority of its sources” was settled by a vote of the pages it was read from, not by a person reading it; one marked “one source” rests on that page alone. Anything else not marked checked has not been checked yet. Where nothing is known, the page says so rather than guess.