Sneezewort
Achillea ptarmica L.
- light
- Full sun
- water
- Medium
- tall
- 61 cm
- wide
- 61 cm
Asteraceae
Also called Sneezewort Yarrow, Sneezeweed
Formerly Ptarmica vulgaris
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.
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Something wrong with it?About it
- Grows as
- PerennialKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Climate
- TemperateKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Wild in
- Europe, Russian Far East to JapanKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Light
- Full sun (6 h or more)Read from Wikipedia and RHS, checked by a majority of its sourcesBacked by both sources
- Height
- 61 cmRead from Plants for a Future, one source
- Spread
- 61 cmRead from Plants for a Future, one source
- Water
- Average: moist, well drainedRead from Wikipedia and RHS, checked by a majority of its sourcesBacked by both sources
- Coldest it survives
- -20 °C (USDA zone 6b)Read from RHS, one source
Not known yet: heat, hottest it survives.
In other languages (12)
- root
- ACHPTA, snúsrølikur, aigrettes
- Finnish
- Ojakärsämö, ojakärsämö
- German
- Sumpf-Schafgarbe, Bertram-Schafgarbe, Sumpfschafgarbe
- French
- Achillée sternutatoire, Achillée ptarmique, achillée sternutatoire
- Czech
- řebříček bertrám, řebřícek bertrám
- Estonian
- võsa-raudrohi
- Danish
- Nyse-røllike, Nyse-Røllike
- Swedish
- Nysört
- Russian
- Тысячелистник птармика
- Norwegian Bokmål
- nyseryllik, Nyseryllik
- Lithuanian
- Čiaudulinė kraujažolė
- Dutch
- wilde bertram, Wilde bertram
Where this comes from
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC0-1.0 (observation counts)
- Wikidata, read 2026-10-25, CC0-1.0
- Kew's checklist, read 2026-10-24, CC-BY-4.0
- Wikipedia, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- RHS, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- Plants for a Future, read 2026-10-26, fact, cited
- Wikimedia Commons, read 2026-10-25, CC BY-SA 3.0
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC0
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY
- 3D model: Achillea ptarmica (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.