Feverfew
Tanacetum parthenium (L.) Sch.Bip.
- light
- Sun–part
- water
- Medium
- tall
- 61 cm
- wide
- 46 cm
Asteraceae
Formerly Aphanostephus pinulensis, Chamaemelum parthenium, Chrysanthemum parthenium, Dendranthema parthenium, and 16 more
When it flowers
Flowers all year in the tropics.
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
- Biennial or perennialKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Climate
- TemperateKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Wild in
- SE. Europe to W. HimalayaKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Light
- Full sun to part shade (3 h or more)Read from NC State Extension, one source
- Height
- 30 cm to 91 cmRead from NC State Extension, one source
- Spread
- 30 cm to 61 cmRead from NC State Extension, one source
- Water
- Average: moist, well drainedRead from NC State Extension, one source
- Flowers
- White, yellowRead from NC State Extension, one source
Not known yet: coldest it survives, heat, hottest it survives.
In other languages (12)
- Dutch
- Moederkruid, moederkruid
- French
- Grande camomille, grande camomille
- German
- Mutterkraut-Wucherblume, Mutterkraut
- Spanish
- Altamisa, Artemisa, Matricaria
- root
- TANPAR, Uy jak, Wermod wen
- Russian
- Пижма девичья
- Czech
- řimbaba obecná
- Danish
- Matrem
- Norwegian Bokmål
- matrem
- Italian
- Partenio
- Finnish
- reunuspietaryrtti
- Lithuanian
- Vaistinis skaistenis
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
- NC State Extension, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- Wikimedia Commons, read 2026-10-25, CC BY 2.5
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC0
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY
- 3D model: Tanacetum parthenium (built for Vanagrha) by Vanagrha, own
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