Common Tansy
Tanacetum vulgare L.
- light
- Sun–part
- water
- Medium
- tall
- 91 cm
- wide
- 34 cm
Asteraceae
Also called Tansy, Golden buttons, Common tansy
Formerly Pyrethrum vulgare
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
- Perennial or rhizomatous geophyteKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Climate
- TemperateKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Wild in
- Temp. EurasiaKew'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 1.5 mRead from NC State Extension, one source
- Spread
- 23 cm to 46 cmRead from NC State Extension, one source
- Water
- Average: moist, well drainedRead from NC State Extension, one source
- Flowers
- YellowRead from NC State Extension, one source
- Coldest it survives
- -40 °C (USDA zone 3a)Read from NC State Extension, one source
Not known yet: heat, hottest it survives.
In other languages (12)
- Dutch
- Boerenwormkruid, boerenwormkruid
- root
- TANVUL, Эгэл маралзгана, vanlig reinfann
- German
- Rainfarn
- Finnish
- pietaryrtti, rohtopietaryrtti
- Russian
- Пижма обыкновенная
- French
- Tanaisie commune, Barbotine, tanaisie vulgaire
- Swedish
- Renfana
- Ojibwa
- oshkinigiikwe aniibiish, Oshkinigikwe-aniibiish (mûckiki'wît)
- Czech
- vratič obecný
- Danish
- Rejnfan
- Norwegian Bokmål
- reinfann
- Lithuanian
- Paprastoji bitkrėslė
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-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: Tanacetum vulgare (built for Vanagrha) by Vanagrha, own
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